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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Friday Reading Edition 255 (1st August 2025)
Howden Cat Watch is a critical alert tool for businesses and organisations that need to manage the risks associated with natural disasters and other catastrophic events, which you can sign up for.
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Friday Reading Edition 255 (1st August 2025)
Severe weather, natural disasters, and other catastrophic events can cause serious havoc regardless of where you are in the world.
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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)
Scaling AI is about reimagining the enterprise and meeting the energy trilemma head on, embedding intelligence across the value chain to secure supply, decarbonise and control costs. These findings provide guidance for navigating that future.
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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 251 (20th June 2025)
This guide describes how a business can identify the general insurance it needs and how to buy this cost-effectively. It will discuss the role of the insurer, insurance broker and other stakeholders in the process, and what they will expect from the business.
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Friday Reading Edition 251 (20th June 2025)
Choosing an insurance broker is an important decision in the purchase of insurance. This guide is designed to offer advice on the process of running a tender for services and negotiating a contract with a broker.
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Friday Reading Edition 251 (20th June 2025)
This guide sets out an introduction to the concept of risk appetite, with the intention of providing individuals, who may not be risk management specialists, with a high-level overview of what risk appetite is and why it is important.
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Friday Reading Edition 251 (20th June 2025)
Captives are long term vehicles, and their relevance should not be restricted to a hard or difficult insurance market. The steps taken and innovation achieved over the past four years should ensure they retain their place at the centre of a sophisticated insurance buyer’s risk financing strategy.
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