Since March 2020, Airmic has been issuing Friday Reading, a curated series of readings and knowledge resources sent by email to Airmic members. The objective of Airmic Friday Reading was initially to keep members informed during the Covid-19 pandemic. Today, Airmic Friday Reading has evolved in scope to include content on a wide range of subjects with each email edition following a theme. This page is a searchable archive of all the readings and knowledge resources that have been shared.
Friday Reading Edition 124 (30th September 2022)
The latest update on recent economic (September 2022), financial and budgetary decisions and developments following the Russian invasion of Ukraine. It includes recent information relating to the EU sanctions regime, recent economic estimates, and policies supporting economic and financial resilience, including the coordination of national economic and fiscal measures.
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Friday Reading Edition 124 (30th September 2022)
The combination of supply chain bottlenecks, generous government spending, tight labour markets and a commodity shock triggered by the Russian invasion of Ukraine, has caused inflation to shoot well above central banks’ targets across many developed economies. That’s putting pressure on household finances and business margins.
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Friday Reading Edition 124 (30th September 2022)
UK economic growth is slowing and is widely expected to reduce to a crawl in 2023, with real GDP expansion potentially one of the lowest in the G20 group.
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Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng has unveiled what he claims are the biggest tax cuts in a generation, so what is in his mini-budget?
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During her campaign, Liz Truss promised to unshackle the City of London by making the most of Brexit in the 164-billion-pound financial sector. What’s her plan?
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Friday Reading Edition 121 (2nd September 2022)
The UK is less exposed to the direct trade effects of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine than its European neighbours. However, both the indirect and longer-term effects on UK trade are potentially significant. This briefing paper explores the four main impacts for UK trade.
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Friday Reading Edition 121 (2nd September 2022)
The war in Ukraine has exacerbated existing trade-offs for policymakers, including between fighting inflation and safeguarding economic recovery and between providing support to those affected and rebuilding fiscal buffers.
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Friday Reading Edition 121 (2nd September 2022)
Kroll experts discuss the long- and short-term impacts as well as a variety of sectors that are affected, including energy and other commodities.
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Friday Reading Edition 116 (29th July 2022)
Lloyd’s Futureset’s latest report, created in partnership with Aon, aims to provide insights on the medium to long term impacts of the Ukraine crisis on the risk landscape. The analysis is based on in-depth interviews with 75 sector experts and practitioners across Aon and Lloyd’s, each providing real-life, practical insights on the challenges that companies are facing today and how they are adjusting their risk management approaches in response.
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Friday Reading Edition 116 (29th July 2022)
The Russia-Ukraine war is having an outsized impact on the global supply chain, impeding the flow of goods, fueling dramatic cost increases and product shortages, and creating catastrophic food shortages around the world, according to experts at a virtual symposium hosted by the MIT Center for Transportation and Logistics.
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