Meet IndieFin's Peter Castleden - Sanlam-backed actuary whose team is disrupting life assurance

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Ever since Steve Jobs put his Apple Mac pirates into a separate part of the building, complete with a Jolly Roger and a different dress code, corporates have seen the value in hiving off their new product teams.

In SA, the best example of this approach is life assurance group Sanlam, which has a policy of investing into innovative businesses, for example Brightrock and EasyEquities, and internally by hiving off it’s own disruptors, like IndieFin, which is the subject of this discussion.

As you’ll hear, it’s a very different approach to the process of financial product development. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
25 Jul 2018 5AM English South Africa Investing · Business News

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