Alexander Forbes’ customers include small, medium and large organisations, specialist groups and individuals. We focus on our customers to deliver an efficient and innovative local service by empowered people wherever we operate.
Alexander Forbes Risk Services
The activities of Risk Services include corporate insurance broking, risk management and risk finance consulting, cell captive insurance facilities, claims management, and specialist areas of aviation, marine, professional indemnity, political and credit risk, transportation and other special risks. As a leading independent provider of risk management services, Alexander Forbes Risk Services has the expertise necessary to deliver informed and innovative risk management solutions. Our experience, gained over seventy years of providing expert advice, ensures that your business risk-related needs are focused on and your risks dealt with in the most appropriate manner.
Alexander Forbes Insurance (AFI)
AFI is a specialist, dynamic team focused on bringing outstanding customer service to affinity groups and individuals. We are represented by a countrywide network with offices in all main centres. By committing ourselves to a thorough understanding of your lifestyle and reacting rapidly to your everchanging requirements, we are geared to design and market a growing range of niche products tailored to meet your evolving needs. Our brands serve different sectors of the individual market and include tailored household insurances incorporating contents, all risks, motor, buildings and specialised covers. We also offer personalised Group Schemes and approved motor brand and 4x4 vehicle covers.
For advice and information on any of our products and services, please call the AFI Service Centre on 0860 100 000.
Alexander Forbes Financial Services
The activities of Financial Services include the administration, consulting and actuarial calculations relating to retirement funds, communication in all areas of employee benefits, asset consulting, providing business solutions and independent assessments, management of clients’ health care programmes, and through the health management division, an integrated approach to the management of HIV/Aids employee absenteeism and disability. Services to individuals include financial planning, including estate planning, tax, death and disability benefit services and retirement and investment planning. HomePlan allows retirement fund members to use a portion of their fund credit as security for a loan when buying or improving a primary residence. Trust Services invests and manages funds on behalf of the dependants of deceased fund members.
African Network (AfriNet)
Alexander Forbes is represented in nearly 40 African countries through subsidiaries, associate companies and correspondents. We have offices in Botswana, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Nigeria, Swaziland, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia and Zimbabwe.
We are represented by correspondents in Algeria, Angola, Benin, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Cape Verde, Central African Republic, Chad, Congo, Cote d’Ivoire, DRC, Egypt, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Lesotho, Madagascar, Mali, Mauritania, Mauritius, Morocco, Niger, Nigeria, Reunion, Senegal, Sudan, Togo and Tunisia.
Facilitating cross-border trade through our extensive network on the African continent provides a challenge which, through access to the Group’s extensive skills and resource base, Alexander Forbes is more than equipped to meet. Our AfriNet network is the largest provider of risk, insurance broking and employee benefits in Africa.
The African network is co-ordinated by Sandton based Alexander Forbes AfriNet Investments.