{"id":601748,"date":"2019-03-10T03:56:31","date_gmt":"2019-03-10T03:56:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/enterpriseam.com\/egypt\/2019\/03\/10\/sanlam-plans-expansion-into-egypt-morocco\/"},"modified":"2019-03-10T03:56:31","modified_gmt":"2019-03-10T03:56:31","slug":"sanlam-plans-expansion-into-egypt-morocco","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/enterpriseam.com\/egypt\/2019\/03\/10\/sanlam-plans-expansion-into-egypt-morocco\/","title":{"rendered":"Sanlam plans expansion into Egypt, Morocco"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"content-anchor\" id=\"tldr-story-02\"><\/a> <b>INVESTMENT WATCH-<\/b> <b>South African insurer <\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sanlam.co.za\/Pages\/default.aspx\"><b>Sanlam<\/b><\/a><b> intends to enter the Egyptian and Moroccan markets<\/b>,<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/sanlam-results\/update-2-s-africas-sanlam-hit-by-global-markets-rout-weak-growth-at-home-idUSL5N20U0JG\">Reuters reports<\/a>. The firm is looking to take an equity stake in an Egyptian player. The company\u2019s expansion plans appear to be at least partly fueled by weak growth at home and challenging conditions in several of its expansion markets. <b>Worth remembering: <\/b>Egypt\u2019s market already sees too many players chasing market share rather than looking to grow the overall size of the market, Misr Insurance Holding Company chief <a href=\"https:\/\/enterprise.press\/stories\/2019\/02\/06\/basel-el-hini-chairman-and-managing-director-misr-insurance-holding-company-mihc\/\">Basel El Hini told us for our 2019 CEO Poll<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>INVESTMENT WATCH- South African insurer Sanlam intends to enter the Egyptian and Moroccan markets,Reuters reports. The firm is looking to take an equity stake in an Egyptian player. The company\u2019s expansion plans appear to be at least partly fueled by weak growth at home and challenging conditions in several of its expansion markets. Worth remembering: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"single-feature.php","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"newspack_ads_suppress_ads":false,"newspack_popups_has_disabled_popups":false,"newspack_sponsor_sponsorship_scope":"","newspack_sponsor_native_byline_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_native_category_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_style":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_placement":"inherit","ep_exclude_from_search":false,"_primary_brand":0,"newspack_featured_image_position":"","newspack_post_subtitle":"","newspack_article_summary_title":"Overview:","newspack_article_summary":"","newspack_hide_updated_date":false,"newspack_show_updated_date":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8572],"tags":[7098,72,181,2380],"brand":[],"newspack_spnsrs_tax":[],"class_list":["post-601748","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-speed-round","tag-africa","tag-enterpriseam","tag-insurance","tag-speed-round","wpautop","entry"],"acf":{"mongo_id":"a3f1121c-4197-444e-8430-02156df460e1","is_powered_by":true,"section_story_id":"68c39a61-6ca7-47df-bbaa-a7819e8352aa","story_type":"1","photo_url":"","photo_position":"above","related_issue":[601741],"teaser":"","voice_url":""},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.1 (Yoast SEO v27.1.1) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Sanlam plans expansion into Egypt, Morocco - EnterpriseAM Egypt<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/enterpriseam.com\/egypt\/2019\/03\/10\/sanlam-plans-expansion-into-egypt-morocco\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Sanlam plans expansion into Egypt, Morocco\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"INVESTMENT WATCH- South African insurer Sanlam intends to enter the Egyptian and Moroccan markets,Reuters reports. 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