Vaka exits Bona Life as new crisis brews

Out: Vaka has quit the life insurer
Out: Vaka has quit the life insurer

Bona Life CEO, Regina Vaka last week dramatically quit the life insurer, as a shareholder stalemate over putting more funds into the business deepened, BusinessWeek has established.

The Non-Bank Financial Institutions Regulatory Authority (NBFIRA) had given Bona Life until August 31 last year to comply with its prudential rule on the Prescribed Capital Target (PCT).

The PCT states the minimum amount of assets that an insurer should hold in excess of its liabilities and for Bona Life, the regulator wanted assets one and a half times over its liabilities, as a way of protecting pensioners from adverse events.

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