CivilSure provides niche financial services to the Construction Industry. Our CEO Dan Payton spoke at a Concrete and Readymix conference in August 2014. This is the message he delivered.
Sarma Conference - August 2014 - CivilSure presentation by Dan Payton
1. CivilSure
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The Road Ahead
2. • ARROWSMITH –maker of arrow heads
• BLADESMITH – sword maker or knife maker
• BROWNSMITH - works with copper or brass
• BLACKSMITH - works with steel and iron
• COPPERSMITH - worked with copper
• GOLDSMITH - maker of gold articles
• GUNSMITH – designs and builds guns
• SILVERSMITH - maker of silver articles
• JACK-SMITH - maker of lifting machinery
• LOCK-SMITH – assembling and designing locks
• SHOESMITH - cobbler, one who shoed horses
• METALSMITH - metal worker
• SUCKSMITH - one who made ploughshares
• TINSMITH – tinker with tin
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3. What is a Tribesmith?
“…A person who Identifies a group of people who are
connected to an idea, occupation or industry…”
What is a Tribe?
“A tribe is a group of people connected to one another.
A group needs only two things to be a tribe: a shared
interest and a way to communicate.”
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Typically, the responsibility for concrete
failure can generally be assigned to one
or more of the following in the supply
chain of Ready - Mix:
1.Ready Mix Supplier;
2.Concrete Contractor Finisher;
3.General Contractor;
4.or Aggregate Supplier
8. • Incorrect selection of materials
• Errors in design calculations and detailing
• Poor construction methods and inadequate
quality control and supervision
• Chemical attack
• External physical and /or mechanical factors
including alterations made to the structure
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9. Where did the concept of
Insurance come from?
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10. But what if the cargo can’t be
divided?
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12. The value of
the total
cargo of 10
ships was
1,000 gold
coins
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And each ship carried goods worth 100 gold coins
So then each merchant pooled 10 gold coins to get a total of 100 gold coins in
the pool
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Cost 10 gold coins
= for 100 gold coins
14. If pooling of risks is so simple, why
does the Ready Mix industry
struggle to get
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Concrete Failure Insurance
and
why is it so expensive?
15. • The Ready mix suppliers in South Africa are FEW in number and are
considered a small pool of similar high rated risks
• The Ready mix suppliers do not shop at the same insurance shop, so the
benefit of the Law of Large Numbers is not achieved by the insurers
• For a risk pool to remain viable, it must be of sufficient size and comprised
of a broad cross section of risks
• To the Insurer the bigger the pool and a spread of risks, the smaller the
risk of losing a large amount of money. At the same time, the bigger the
pool, the more likely it is that you'll have a claim, because somebody in
the pool will be unlucky.
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16. • “…Rating wise, this becomes a bit of a challenge as
to make the programme attractive to the client(s)
volume will be one of the drivers in this regard. It is
difficult for us to evaluate this as we are not party to
the “global” turnover of the members...”
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ANDREW BROWN and KEITH MUMFORD
17. Tribe Benefit
• When one insurer underwrites a Pools of
similar risks – that risk will exhibit stable and
measurable characteristics that enable
actuaries to estimate future costs with an
acceptable degree of accuracy. This, in turn,
enables actuaries to determine premium
levels that will be stable over time, relative to
overall trends.
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18. R10 Million
Turnover Rate Excess 7 Days
strength
notification
Excess 14
Days strength
notification
Excess 28 Days
strength
notification
R1 R50,000,000.00 .070% R15,000 R30,000 R60,000
R50,000,000.01 R100,000,000.00 .065% R25,000 R50,000 R100,000
R100,000,000.01 R250,000,000.00 .055% R35,000 R70,000 R140,000
R250,000,000.01 R500,000,000.00 .050% R45,000 R90,000 R180,000
R500,000,000.01 Plus .048% R55,000 R110,000 R220,000
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R50,000,000.00 *R2,558.49 per month *
R100,000,000.01 *R4,020.48 per month *
Minimum Monthly Premium R3000.00
* Excludes VAT and Broker Fee – Subject to a satisfactory Claims History of the individual SARMA member. The rates are subject to the Group SARMA members
claims history and may increase. Rates quoted are an indication only. A Proposal form to be completed to secure rates.
Strategic
Value
Add
19. Annual Risk Premiums
collected
Discount on premiums
passed to all members
R1,5 Million *10%
R3 Million *15%
R4 Million *20%
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* The Annual Premium collected - Excludes Admin and Broker Fee . Calculated annually in March. Subject to Annual review by the insurer. The insurer
has the right to decline this offer should the scheme claims be excessive
Strategic
Value
Add
23. CivilSure - Dan Payton ACII
R1,000,000.00 R964.91 *
R500,000.00 R482.46 *
* Risk Premium and Admin Fee - Excludes VAT and Broker Fee – subject to a satisfactory Claims History of the individual SARMA member
– these rates are only a indication and subject to a quote based on claims.
Strategic
Value
Add
27. • Achieving economy of scale
• Increasing bargaining power
• The Discounts not based on the individual business
size but on the size of the group as a whole and then
passed on back to the indvidual
• Adding values to individual business as products
previously not available to the smaller player now
become readily available
• Obtaining new services
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The benefits of the SARMA Pool?
28. • As Smiths
• Knowledge of segmented construction markets
• Inherent risks known of that market segment
• Specific Insurance packages for specific risks for
a specific market segment
• Access to other products
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What does Civilsure do?
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The Road Ahead
Thank You
Editor's Notes
Introduction – Greetings
Dan is my name and I am from Civilsure
Let me tell you about the Smiths
The name SMITH was an old English term meaning
ONE WHO WORKS IN METALS – Precious and semi precious
It was related to the word SMITAN and SMITE
Smite means to Strike or Hit
So Smiths were CRAFTSMAN HITTING Metals and serviced the community with vital products for daily living
Modern Day Word smith
The Tribesmith does not work in metal the tribe smith works with people
He follows specific communities of people and serves as a mentor to that community
- The Tribesmith Acts as a communicator, teacher or trainer to the tribe
And the aim of the Tribesmith is to enable the organization to become more tribal,
Tribal – means keeping the community knit together through communication, education, products and anything else that goes with the Tribe
These are the fine tribes I follow
My Mandate from SARMA is
Increase the size of SARMA membership by providing purposeful value adds to the SARMA members
I start with the toughest and trickiest type of insurance to obtain in South Africa FAILURE of READY – MIX
That being INSURANCE that pays for the Rip and tear so that the ready mix can be poured again and the Consequential loses that attach to a failure
This type of Insurance is not readily available in South Africa and when obtained it is normally very expensive
When the SHIP hits the CAN who is to blame
Responsibility for concrete failure involves more than one party
This is a risk that insurance companies do not readily insure in South Africa
THE FAILURE OF READY – MIX
No matter what the reason or the cause – it takes a small hole to sink a big ship –
All companies are held VACRIOUS liable for the acts of their staff – so when your staff or your batching computers get it wrong the consequences can be costly
Spar story
Several hundred years ago some merchants looking to ferry cargo thought of spreading their risk by shipping each person’s cargo in different ships.
Common sense told them that the probability of all ships going down on the same journey around the same time was much less than just one ship drowning. The formula worked
Much later, when the academicians got into the story, they showed through theorems and numbers what the sharp business minds knew intuitively: the risk of all ships capsizing tends to be zero
This problem can be bypassed by pooling in money that would equal the cargo of one ship.
For example if the value of cargo of say 10 ships was 1,000 gold coins and each ship carried goods worth 100 coins, each merchant pooled in 10 gold coins to get a total of 100 gold coins. Whoever lost a ship would get the pot of gold.
And this is how pooling of risk came into practice.
The merchants came together to pool their resources to ensure that the burden of loss is well spread out (losing 10 gold coins for the certainty of getting either the cargo back or 100 gold coins). The basic premise of insurance is to identify the risk of an event happening and then spreading out the risk among all the people who face the same risk and are prepared to pay a small sum to get protection from that risk.
This problem can be bypassed by pooling in money that would equal the cargo of one ship.
For example if the value of cargo of say 10 ships was 1,000 gold coins and each ship carried goods worth 100 coins, each merchant pooled in 10 gold coins to get a total of 100 gold coins. Whoever lost a ship would get the pot of gold.
And this is how pooling of risk came into practice.
The merchants came together to pool their resources to ensure that the burden of loss is well spread out (losing 10 gold coins for the certainty of getting either the cargo back or 100 gold coins). The basic premise of insurance is to identify the risk of an event happening and then spreading out the risk among all the people who face the same risk and are prepared to pay a small sum to get protection from that risk.
If pooling of risks is so simple why does the Ready Mix industry struggle to get Concrete Failure Insurance ?
When one insurer underwrites a Pools of similar risks – that risk will exhibit stable and measurable characteristics that enable actuaries to estimate future costs with an acceptable degree of accuracy. This, in turn, enables actuaries to determine premium levels that will be stable over time, relative to overall trends.
You get the insurance broker who is add
The insurance underwriter who is ANAL
The Engineer who says give to me I can build it
Andrew Brown and Keith Mumford - who may be known to some of you
Andrew built roads and bridges for a national construction company
We are like Gary Player – the more we practise – the better we get -
We believe if you chase 2 rabbits you will not catch one and for this reason we chase the construction industry
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