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 230 (13th December 2024)
Discusses the Red Sea Crisis of Houthi attacks on shipping, plus Somali piracy activity in the Gulf of Aden, and we also talk about re/insuring Ukrainian war risks, on land and in the Black Sea.
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Friday Reading Edition 229 (6th December 2024)
Cyber claims have continued their upwards trend in 2024, driven in large part by the rise in data and privacy breach incidents. The frequency of large cyber claims in the first six months of 2024 was up 14% while severity increased by 17%.
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Friday Reading Edition 228 (29th November 2024)
Insurance has a significant role to play in the four themes set to dominate discussions at the UN’s annual climate change summit
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Friday Reading Edition 227 (22nd November 2024)
As businesses face a rising tide of risk, organisations should restructure the fundamentals of how they handle uncertainty.
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Friday Reading Edition 226 (15th November 2024)
France’s insurance regulator, the ACPR, has published a guide to captive insurance.
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Friday Reading Edition 224 (1st November 2024)
Increases in taxes and borrowing are not costless and the spending plans after 2025-26 are unlikely to survive contact with reality.
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Friday Reading Edition 219 (27th September 2024)
Insurance should serve as a great enabler to clear obstacles for the net zero transition while supporting the adaptation and resilience needed to face inevitable climate impacts.
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Friday Reading Edition 219 (27th September 2024)
Climate change impacts our economic and societal systems, for example extreme weather events pose a risk to essential services, Customers will have to accept a reduction in the availability of infrastructure, without further investment in increasingly costly maintenance and adaptation.
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Friday Reading Edition 219 (27th September 2024)
Marsh’s Corporate Climate Adaptation Survey can help businesses prepare for the changes and challenges ahead. Explore our key findings and takeaways.
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Friday Reading Edition 219 (27th September 2024)
The faster the climate changes and the longer adaptation efforts are put off, the more difficult and expensive responding to climate change will be.
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