Unique Insurance Company targets higher growth
Unique Insurance Company Limited {UIC} has reiterated its commitment to further deepen its relationship with the company agents in order to grow its premium to consolidate and improve upon its 2016 performance.
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The Managing Director of Unique Insurance, Mr Victor Obeng-Adiyiah, who made the commitment at a ceremony to award the company's best-performing insurance agents during the 2016 financial year, said the company considers the agents as a vehicle through which the company's products get to customers, thereby playing a key role in the tremendous growth of the business.
The company's best performing agents drawn from the southern and northern sectors of the country numbering over 20 were rewarded for their hard work and for meeting their target for the year 2016.
Mr Alex H. Sackyefio, Kumasi, topped and was rewarded with a trip to Dubai, followed by Mrs Selina Adjei Gyan of Takoradi who will have a weekend treat at Aqua Safari, Ada, Ms Daphne Acquah, Accra, took the third position.
The rest received various items from the company in recognition of their performance.
The insurance company also honoured its best employees for 2016. Francis Kwamena Sey, Marketing Officer, Takoradi branch, was adjudged the best staff member, Mr Francis Antwi a Reinsurance Officer, Head office, came in second place and Hawawu Ikililu Awudu from the Tema Branch was third.
Mr Obeng-Adiyiah said it was important Unique Insurance Company Ltd appreciated the contributions of agents, hence the decision to reward them.
He said the company would continue to invest in training and equipping of agents to enhance their performance.
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“We are going to come out with end-of-service benefits for them so that they also have some form of pension when they leave the service."
He urged them not to rest on their oars but to broaden their horizon in order to improve upon their performance.
Outlook
On the outlook for the company this year, the Managing Director said, "We are going to consolidate and grow our business through new business acquisition and increased business retention.
“From a dive in our premium over the last five years, we ended the year with a growth of 42 per cent and we hope to hit an additional 38 per cent by the end of this year 2017.
He said the company would further enhance its customer service delivery and also repackage some of its products to meet the changing needs of customers.
The company, he said, had mapped out a strategy to increase its presence across the country by the end of the year, 2017.
Challenges
He cited lack of appreciation of insurance policies by Ghanaians, the economic situation, which made it difficult for people to increase or buy insurance policies during the year under review, and lack of legal enforcement on mandatory insurance policies as issues that confronted the industry, and which also affected the company.
Mr Obeng-Adiyiah also cited premium undercutting as one other challenge having a negative impact on the growth of the industry.
Premium undercutting is the practice where an insurance company secretly offers clients unrealistically low premiums in order to gain a competitive advantage. He said the practice was unethical and must be stopped to ensure sanity in the industry.
He said the motive of engagement was usually to increase the business portfolio, but that invariably depleted the insurer’s reserves.