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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Aon, 4th November 2025
Captives are moving from a reactive stopgap to a core, strategic tool for managing cyber risk — helping organistions drive efficiency, manage volatility and build resilience in a rapidly evolving risk environment.
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Marsh, 27th June 2025
The Marsh Captive Solutions 2025 benchmarking report explores trends among captives and offers insights for captive owners in different industries. Among these trends are growth in premiums written by captive insurers, more risk retained in captive vehicles, and the expansion of the number of coverages written.
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Airmic (with Artex), 4th June 2024
The past four years have seen a revitalisation of captive utilisation. Captives are en vogue again but it has not always been the case this century.
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WTW, 11th September 2026
Friday Reading Edition 280 (13th February 2026)
Resilience is no longer a buzzword - it’s a business imperative. How can your organisation shift from reactive recovery to proactive resilience?
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Airmic, BCI, 5th February 2026
Friday Reading Edition 280 (13th February 2026)
Just released and featured at the Airmic Risk Forum: Based on seven detailed case studies, this publication looks at Airmic’s Principles of Resilience and considers what they look like in today’s organisations, with emphasis on the governance of resilience.
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Edelman
Friday Reading Edition 280 (13th February 2025)
As economic anxiety, geopolitical tension, and technological disruption intensify, people are narrowing their world to smaller, familiar circles that reflect their views, and this hinders economic and societal progress. Read the report to understand a path forward to restoring trust and rebuilding connection and collaboration across society.
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Chatham House, 15th December 2025
Friday Reading Edition 275 (19th December 2025)
Chatham House experts highlight the crunch moments and potential flashpoints in the year ahead.
Political Risk Podcast, 30th April 2025
As we hit the first 100 days mark of US President Donald Trump’s second term, no other single word sums up the preoccupation of business leaders around the world better than tariffs. This podcast assesses the impact of the US’s tariffs, and how risk professionals and their organisations are responding to the fast-moving shifts in global trade. Special thanks to David Benyon, Editor of the Political Risk Podcast; Alexander Frost, Chief Markets Officer at Airmic; and Hoe-Yeong Loke, Head of Research at Airmic, for contributing to such an engaging and thought-provoking conversation.
Chatham House, 29th April 2025
The scale and shock of the president’s policymaking threatens to undermine his primary foreign policy objective: maintaining an advantage over China.
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The Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU)
The global economy now faces a significant shock with forecasted growth of just 1.9% in 2025, the weakest outturn since the pandemic. This downturn is largely attributed to Donald Trump’s new tariffs which are poised to disrupt global trade this year, pushing the United States into a recession of -0.1%.