- CEO
- Paul Brendan Hanratty
- Full Time Employees
- 23,926
- Sector
- Financial Services
- Industry
- Insurance - Life
- Address
- 2 Strand Road Bellville South Africa 7530
- IPO Date
- Jan 20, 2010
- Business
- Sanlam Limited (SLLDY) is a leading South African financial services group focused on insurance, investments, financial planning, and wealth management solutions. Founded in 1918 and headquartered in Bellville, Cape Town, the company operates through key clusters including Sanlam Personal Finance, Sanlam Emerging Markets, Sanlam Investments, Sanlam Corporate, and Santam; it provides life and general insurance, short-term insurance, retirement annuities, trusts, wills, estate planning, asset management, alternative investments, multi-manager solutions, risk management, capital market activities, health solutions including gap cover and medical aid, credit products, personal loans, home loans, savings and investment products, group schemes, retirement funds, fund administration, and financial advice to individuals, businesses, and institutions across market segments such as entry-level (Sanlam Sky), middle market (Sanlam Topaz), business owners and professionals (Sanlam Cobalt), and affluent clients (Glacier by Sanlam). Sanlam maintains a significant presence in 33 countries, primarily across Africa, India, Malaysia, the United Kingdom, Ireland, the United States, Australia, and the Philippines, positioning it as Africa's largest non-banking financial services group following its 2018 acquisition of SAHAM Finances. Recent developments include the R6.6 billion acquisition of Assupol in September 2024 with integration ongoing into 2025, a deepened strategic partnership with Ubuntu-Botho in 2024 through a share swap involving African Rainbow Capital entities to leverage Tyme Bank capabilities, formation of the Sanlam-Allianz joint venture in 2023 expanded in 2024 with Allianz increasing its stake to 49% after transferring Namibian operations, a February 2025 partnership with Fedhealth as its exclusive medical scheme provider building on the 2023 Afrocentric investment, and increased stakes in India's Shriram entities including 23% in Shriram AMC in 2025 and further to 35.5% in Shriram Asset Management plus 49.7% in Shriram Wealth, alongside ringfenced capital for pending Shriram insurance deals.