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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WTW, 15th September 2023
Friday Reading Edition 255 (1st August 2025)
This report discusses how and where earthquakes happen, their impact on property and business and how risk consultancy modeling and analysis can help businesses to measure, mitigate and manage their risks.
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Marsh
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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Howden
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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Marsh, 16th July 2025
AI is rapidly transforming the world, but this progress could potentially be at a cost. While AI offers remarkable opportunities, the full environmental impact of the rapid rollout of data centres to meet this demand is unknown. Could AI help us tackle the climate emergency or exacerbate the issue?
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McKinsey & Co, 5th June 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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International Energy Agency (IEA), 10th April 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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WTW, 11th March 2025
The growth of data centres and their resultant demands being met by fossil fuel generation in the short to medium term has negatively affected the sustainability goals of leading technology firms.
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KPMG
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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Airmic (with McGill and Partners), 10th June 2025
The aim of this publication is to provide a Guide for directors to the advantages and potential pitfalls associated with the creation and running of captive insurance companies. We examine this issue principally from the perspective of the parent company or partnership board rather than that of the captive board.
Airmic (with Artex) , 4th June 2025
The past four years have seen a revitalisation of captive utilisation. Captives are increasingly mainstream. Governments, rather than looking on them with suspicion, are more likely to embrace the concept and are interested in making it possible for companies to keep them at home.