MMI Holdings Limited

MMI Holdings Limited

Type	Public
Traded as	JSE:MMI
Industry	Insurance & Financial services
Founded	2010
Headquarters	Centurion, South Africa
Key people	Johnson Njeke - Chairman Nicolaas Kruger - CEO
Products	Insurance and Asset Management
Revenue	ZAR: 28.1 billion (2014)
Net income	ZAR: 3.3 billion (2014)
Total assets	ZAR: 414 billion (2014)
Total equity	ZAR: 25.2 billion (2014)
Number of employees	17,976
Website	Homepage

MMI Holdings Limited, commonly referred to as MMI Holdings, is a South African based financial services group that is listed on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange.^[1]

Overview

MMI Holdings Limited engages in long and short-term insurance, asset management, savings, investment and employee benefits through its various brands. The Group has subsidiaries in Botswana, Ghana, Gibraltar, Guernsey, Kenya, Lesotho, Mauritius, Namibia, Nigeria, UK, South Africa, Swaziland and Zambia.^[2]

History

MMI Holdings was formed in 2010 when Metropolitan Holdings and Momentum Group, two insurance and financial services companies in South Africa, merged their operations. ^[1]

Pre-Merger History

Metropolitan Holdings Limited

Metropolitan was founded in 1898 as Homes Trust Limited and was later acquired by Sanlam in 1918. Sanlam merged Homes Trust Limited with Metropolitan Life Insurance Company Limited (another one of its subsidiaries) to form Metropolitan Homes Trust Life Limited in 1979.^[3]

In 1985, Metropolitan Homes Trust Life Limited changed its name to Metropolitan Life Limited (Metlife). Metlife was then listed on the JSE in 1986 and cross listed on the NSX in 1996. The group name was changed to Metropolitan Holdings Limited in 2003.^[3] As at the merger date, Metropolitan Holdings was listed on the JSE.

Momentum Group Limited

Momentum traces its roots from Momentum Life Assurers Limited that was established in 1966 as a life assurance company and Southern Life Association Limited that was incorporated in 1904 as African Life Assurance Society. In 1992, RMB Holdings (RMBH) acquired interest in Momentum Life Assurers Limited.^[3]

On April 1, 1998, Anglo American Corporation of South Africa Limited (now Anglo American plc) merged its financial services interests with RMBH in order to achieve the objective of a unified financial services grouping known as First Rand.^[4] The transaction required that the business of Momentum Life Assurers Limited was transferred to the Southern Life Association Limited which was renamed FirstRand Insurance Company Limited and much later renamed Momentum Group Limited.^[3] As at the merger date, Momentum Group was a wholly owned subsidiary of First Rand.

The Merger

On March 31, 2010, Metropolitan Holdings, First Rand and Momentum Group entered into a Merger Agreement that would see the amalgamation of Momentum’s business with Metropolitan.^[3] FirstRand sold its entire shareholding in Momentum to Metropolitan in consideration for which Metropolitan will issue new Metropolitan ordinary shares to FirstRand.^[5] This made Momentum a wholly owned subsidiary of Metropolitan. Metropolitan then transferred its insurance business to Momentum and was renamed MMI Holdings with FirstRand as the largest shareholder.^[6]

Post Merger History

On 7 March 2011, RMB Holdings (RMBH), Remgro and FirstRand span off their insurance assets to RMI Holdings and separately listing it on the JSE. This process led to the transfer of FirstRand's entire shareholding in MMI Holdings to RMI Holdings.

Ownership

The shares of the stock of MMI Holdings are traded on the JSE, under the symbol: MMI. As at June 2014, the shareholding in the group's stock was as depicted in the table below:^[2]

Governance

MMI Holdings Limited is governed by an eighteen-person board of directors with Johnson Njeke serving as the chairman and Nicolaas Kruger serving as the Group Chief Executive Officer.^[7]

See also

• Rand Merchant Insurance Holdings
• First Rand
• Johannesburg Stock Exchange

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