Zimbabweans have long seen cattle as a store of wealth
Save time by listening to our audio articles as you multitaskSo Mr Chamunorwa, an actuary trained in Britain, started a company, Nhaka Life Assurance, to sell inflation-proof pensions to Zimbabweans. The pensions are not denominated in Zimbabwe dollars, since they quickly evaporate, nor in American dollars, since many Zimbabweans areInstead, they are denominated in cows, which the government can’t print.
. Mr Chamunorwa jokes that he has merely updated an old idea and added livestock insurance. His scheme is especially suited to a country where savers have lost all confidence in conventional finance. The only way to rebuild trust is to offer people “things they can touch and see”, he says. Nhaka holds viewing days when some of its 70,000 clients can visit the cows.
Mr Chamunorwa also likes to get away from his office in Harare, the capital, and visit them. At Nhaka’s farm in Selous, 75km away, he watches newly weaned calves hungrily munching hay, and offers his actuarial opinion. “Most of these, we’ll be putting a bull on them in 12 months’ time,” he says. That will be “a compounding of the investment return”.
This article appeared in the Middle East & Africa section of the print edition under the headline"Heiferinflation"
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