Retirement Savings Plans are worth revisiting
It's worth revisiting Retirement Savings Plans. Several new features in the framework In these uncertain times, it has never made more sense to take precautions for the future (or, for many, to think how much it would now be worthwhile, having left savings set aside for more complicated times...). The Retirement Savings Plan (PPR) was created by Decree-Law as a mechanism to guarantee a [...]
New Amplitude Insurance Website
New Amplitude Seguros Website New on-line services for Amplitude Clients It is with great satisfaction that we announce that our new website -www.amplitudeseguros.pt - is already available! With a more modern and intuitive design, you can now easily navigate through our services and the products offered by the insurers, consulting all the information in a simple and [...]
How can you be sure it could be a seenager?
How to guarantee that it can be a seenager? Almost all of us from the 50's/60's/70's grew up hearing about ourselves - Portuguese people - that we are quiet, with little tendency to make a big fuss about defending our rights, with a certain shyness to show off successes around money, little entrepreneurial streak and great [...]
Trends in risk and the insurance sector
Trends in risks and the insurance sector After the feeling of "planet in abeyance" that the pandemic brought us, 2022 registered with such an animation of consumption, which exceeded in several cases the averages of 2019, with very positive reflections in various sectors of the economy. The outbreak of the invasion of Ukraine sent [...]
It's time for holidays, for rest, but also for reflection on the world
Every year, during this time of pause, the question of the safety of the installations, the opportunity for preventive maintenance and improvements, and - not least - the updating of the insured assets and capitals are more predominant. In this last chapter, this year there is a special alert that affects us all: The rise in inflation [...]
Travel and insurance
We are back to travel and the planet is quite lively, whether for leisure or for work with the return of the congresses and international fairs that boost business so much. We come then to bring some important notions about travel insurance. Travel Insurance is a subtype of Personal Accident Insurance, [...]
Global Warming at the root of recent Major Industrial Disasters
The managers, thinkers, opinion leaders and global scientists who collaborate with the World Economic Forum highlight in the top 10 global risks, 5 of climate origin, both in terms of probability and impact, as shown in the following image (in the same ranking, there are 2 related to cyber risks, and [...]
The Insurance Sector
Insurance indicators (source APS, Associação Portuguesa de Seguradores, unless otherwise indicated) Evolution Jan-Sep2020/ Jan-Sep2019 Environment - GdP -4.7% (Jun) / CPI + 0.04% / Unemployment 7.3% Insurance sector production - 23.3% / + 4.3% in Non-Life / - 43.3% in Life activity in Portugal; written premiums, excludes reinsurance activity The Life branch [...]
Do you know when you should revalidate your driving licence?
First of all a useful clarification: If you have changed the address of residence in the Citizen Card, you do not have to revalidate the driving licence. The dates for the compulsory revalidations depend on the date you took your driving licence and the type of licence you have. Find, at the end of this article, the table that applies to you [...]
Cyber Risks and Insurance
The overwhelming majority of Portuguese companies are SMEs and in recent years, whenever the issue of cyber risks is approached, they would mostly answer something like: "We are too small to worry." Mind you, really worry, because the reality of today has brought incontrovertible evidence. AIG is one of the world's largest insurers in this field, [...]
