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 256 (8th August 2025)
Climate change is increasing wildfire risk.
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Friday Reading Edition 256 (8th August 2025)
Highlights wildfire hazard trends and stresses the need for companies to be aware of how their assets and operations could either initiate or be affected by a wildfire.
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Friday Reading Edition 256 (8th August 2025)
The area of the UK burnt by wildfires so far this year is already higher than the total for any year in more than a decade, satellite data suggests.
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Friday Reading Edition 256 (8th August 2025)
In this three-part podcast series, we explore Canada’s growing wildfire risk from multiple angles, featuring insights from several Marsh subject matter experts.
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Friday Reading Edition 254 (25th July 2025)
AI has tremendous potential—but it also has tremendous implications for investments in power, real estate, and more. Here’s what leaders need to know now in the face of rapidly rising demand.
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Friday Reading Edition 254 (25th July 2025)
A major new IEA report brings groundbreaking data and analysis to one of the most pressing and least understood energy issues today, exploring AI’s wide range of potential impacts
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Friday Reading Edition 254 (25th July 2025)
AI's meteoric rise has the potential to add USD 13 trillion to the global economy by 2030, but its future growth heavily relies on two often-overlooked components: infrastructure and energy. From data centre buildouts to energy-efficient tech, learn how industries are adapting.
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Friday Reading Edition 253 (18th July 2025)
These are exciting times for captives. Captives are now a mainstream part of an agile, intelligent and resilient risk financing strategy regardless of insurance market conditions. The use of captives for the incubation of emerging risks, blended catastrophe covers and sustainability projects is directly aligning the use of captives to the strategies of organisations in an increasingly connected, complex and fast-moving world.
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Friday Reading Edition 250 (13th June 2025)
This guide provides practical guidance on managing emerging risks. While emerging risks can exhibit quite subtle and not always obvious differences when compared with other risks, we recommend that organisations manage emerging risks as part of their overall risk management system, considering emerging risks alongside other risks.
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Friday Reading Edition 246 (2nd May 2025)
This year, nearly 60% said they expected the trade conflicts of the incoming Trump administration to have a negative impact on their finances. That was a similar proportion to those saying the Ukraine conflict had negatively impacted their business in 2023.
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