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 131 (18th November 2022)
Trade policy actions on food and fertilisers have risen sharply since the start of the war in Ukraine. This adds to trade measures implemented to respond to potential domestic food shortages at the beginning of the pandemic.
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Friday Reading Edition 128 (28th October 2022)
Attempts to address global inflation through quantitative tightening, by raising interest rates, is now affecting all tiers of the construction and property development chain including the financing of projects.
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Friday Reading Edition 128 (28th October 2022)
Dame DeAnne Julius of Chatham House speaks about what to expect from the cost-of-living crisis and its political consequences.
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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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Friday Reading Edition 127 (21st October 2022)
Governments trying to replace fossil fuels are beginning to invest heavily in hydrogen technology and infrastructure. As international interest accelerates, the insurance industry is under pressure to keep up.
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Friday Reading Edition 1 (27th March 2020)
Amid the coronavirus pandemic, companies need a crisis response coordinated by top management that gives experts and managers the autonomy to implement creative, pragmatic solutions. Arising from hundreds of discussions conducted in the past few weeks, this article by McKinsey & Co looks at the efforts of companies now in the process of building what they term “COVID-19 nerve centers.”
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