Click here for the Friday Reading Search, a searchable archive of reading and knowledge resources

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.

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McKinsey & Co, 21st May 2020
Friday Reading Edition 9 (22nd May 2020)
This article from McKinsey outlines four forces whose uncertain outcomes will shape the years to come, as well as the steps needed to build the return muscle to grapple with these forces in the post-COVID-19 world.
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Airmic, 15th March 2020
Friday Reading Edition 12 (12th June 2020)
In this episode of Airmic Talks, host Richard Cutcher discusses the responses from large organisations to the COVID-19 crisis, and the role of the risk professional, with guests from Control Risks, International SOS and Gallaghers.
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Airmic,Arthur D. Little,WTW,Zurich, 5th December 2019
Friday Reading Edition 4 (17th April 2020)
This Airmic guide calls for a more joined-up approach and thinking about people risk as two sides of the same coin – risk to your employees and risk to your organisation from people factors. Doing this means risk and HR professionals should working more closely together.
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Airmic , 3rd June 2019
Friday Reading Edition 1 (27th March 2020)
Collaboration and longer relationships between customers, brokers and insurers will be key to developing new solutions. This Airmic report, produced in collaboration with KPMG, explores how collaboration will be central in transforming insurance for risks such as that relating to the Covid-19 situation.
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Airmic,WTW, 2nd June 2019
Friday Reading Edition 35 (20th November 2020)
Although risk professionals are aware of the dangers that an unpredictable political environment can pose to their organisation, identifying and assessing those risks is the challenge that faces our profession today. This report will help break down the risks, understand their interconnectivity, the solutions available and appropriate responses.
Oliver Wyman, 1st January 2018
Friday Reading Edition 23 (28th August 2020)
Who really owns the risk management framework in a bank? Is it the Chief Risk Officer? Is it so fundamental that it is a shared responsibility among the whole executive or senior leadership team? This guidance puts flesh on the bones of the ‘three lines of defence’ skeleton. 
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Project Management Institute, 23rd October 2012
Many people have been trying to understand the nature of hard-to-detect risks or uncertainties. After Donald Rumsfeld inadvertently coined “unknown unknowns”, people started using quadrants of knowledge (i.e., known known, known unknown, unknown known, and unknown unknown) to understand and explain the nature of risk. But this study reveals that many of them were not truly unidentifiable. This study develops and suggests a model to characterise risks, especially unidentified ones.
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Aon
Friday Reading Edition 128 (28th October 2022)
Inflation has become one of the most vexing issues confronting economists, governments, business leaders and consumers — and has also tasked risk managers with navigating new forms of volatility in their risk management programmes.
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Control Risks
Friday Reading Edition 104 (29th April 2022)
Even before the Ukraine-Russia conflict, political risk had been rising ever higher on company risk registers. Despite this awareness, the impacts of political or geopolitical shocks to business have often been perceived as limited or localised. Some impacts appeared to be beyond the control of business leaders to manage. The catastrophic events in Ukraine have shattered such assumptions, and left businesses no option but to respond quickly and decisively.
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