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One month later the South African Life Assurance Company was established as a full subsidiary of Santam to focus on life assurance while Santam remained focused on short-term insurance. [8] Santam is a subsidiary of South African financial services group Sanlam, which holds 62.3% of Santam’s shares.
Its five business clusters comprise Sanlam Personal Finance, Sanlam Emerging Markets, Sanlam Investments, Sanlam Corporate and Santam. [ 6 ] The group's areas of expertise include insurance (life and general), financial planning, retirement annuities, trusts, wills, short-term insurance, asset management, risk management and capital market ...
The universal portfolio algorithm is a portfolio selection algorithm from the field of machine learning and information theory. The algorithm learns adaptively from historical data and maximizes the log-optimal growth rate in the long run. It was introduced by the late Stanford University information theorist Thomas M. Cover. [1]
Sanlam Kenya plc was founded on 26 October 1946 [3] as the Indo Africa Insurance Company Limited and began writing life insurance business in 1947. In 1963, the Company became the first insurance company to list its shares on the Nairobi Securities Exchange .
Like in BCG analysis, a two-dimensional portfolio matrix is created. However, with the GE model the dimensions are multi factorial. One dimension comprises nine industry attractiveness measures; the other comprises twelve internal business strength measures. The GE matrix helps a strategic business unit evaluate its overall strength.
The growth–share matrix [2] (also known as the product portfolio matrix, [3] Boston Box, BCG-matrix, Boston matrix, Boston Consulting Group portfolio analysis and portfolio diagram) is a matrix used to help corporations to analyze their business units, that is, their product lines.
The box cover for the InDesign 2 upgrade from PageMaker. This software was the successor to PageMaker. Development of PageMaker had flagged in the later years at Aldus and, by 1998, PageMaker had lost almost the entire professional market [17] to the comparatively feature-rich QuarkXPress 3.3, released in 1992, and 4.0, released in 1996.
The decision-matrix method, also Pugh method or Pugh concept selection, invented by Stuart Pugh, [1] is a qualitative technique used to rank the multi-dimensional options of an option set. It is frequently used in engineering for making design decisions but can also be used to rank investment options, vendor options, product options or any ...