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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Bank of England, 9th September 2020
Friday Reading Edition 28 (2nd October 2020)
Anna Sweeney, Executive Director, Insurance, at the Bank of England – responsible for the supervision of the UK’s general insurance sector – looks at what climate change means for the insurance industry. She examines the risks insurers face and what they can do about them.
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Swiss Re, 4th June 2020
Friday Reading Edition 21 (14th August 2020)
[Free to read upon providing contact details] Swiss Re’s annual SONAR report looks at the top emerging risks, including increased use of edge computing, vaping and e-cigarette addiction, and declining mental health among teenagers and young adults.
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World Economic Forum,Marsh,Zurich, 1st May 2020
Friday Reading Edition 9 (22nd May 2020)
This report taps into the views of nearly 350 senior risk professionals who participated in the COVID-19 Risks Perception Survey conducted by WEF, Marsh & McLennan and Zurich Insurance Group – four key areas of significant challenges emerge from the survey as global concerns.
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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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Swiss Re, 18th December 2019
Friday Reading Edition 17 (17th July 2020)
A report on how re/insurers need to improve risk models to better assess climate hazards, and to ensure development of the capabilities to be able to underwrite natural catastrophe risks in the future.
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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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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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Lloyd’s
Friday Reading Edition 119 (19th August 2022)
In the aftermath of the war in Ukraine, therefore, building resilience against current and emerging risks is essential. The insurance industry has a formidable toolkit at its disposal to help organisations build that resilience, whether through the swift payment of claims to keep businesses afloat; removing risks from company balance sheets to reduce their exposure to the crisis; or providing advice on risk mitigation and management to ensure they are prepared for a range of outcomes.
Mactavish
Friday Reading Edition 119 (19th August 2022)
[free to read upon sharing contact details] The war in the Ukraine, and its global repercussions, is undoubtedly one of the major crises of our times. Past crisis events have only served to expose the limitations of the traditional insurance model and its ability to understand and protect against new risks, as they emerge. There is now a growing pressure on policyholders to take a more active role in ensuring the reliability of their risk placement programmes.
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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