When Old Mutual Holdings Plc (Old Mutual Group East Africa) released its half-year 2025 results, the numbers drew attention — and not for the right reasons. Profit before tax plunged 66%, from KShs 1.1 billion in June 2024 to just KShs 380 million. Net profit was a razor-thin KShs 5 million, a 98% drop from KShs 327 million a year earlier. For investors, it was a sobering moment. After two years of steady recovery and a triumphant return to profitability in 2024, the sharp decline in early 2025 sparked concern: was the momentum fading, or was the turnaround losing steam?…
In the Hot Seat: Old Mutual East Africa’s Arthur Oginga After five years of rebuilding, restructuring, and reimagining, Arthur Oginga’s Old Mutual stands steadier — but not yet still. Profit swings, market storms, and regional headwinds keep the seat hot, testing whether patient leadership and disciplined transformation can endure in East Africa’s insurance battlefield. CEO East Africa Magazine’s Muhereza Kyamutetera takes a deeper look at the past, the present, and what lies ahead for Arthur Oginga — an Old Mutual insider, finance and banking veteran turned insurer, and now a CEO steering through the heat of transformation.

Arthur Oginga, the man in Old Mutual’s hot seat, is steering through shaky ground and strong headwinds as he fights to complete the turnaround he began in 2020.



