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 39 (18th December 2020)
Premium Credit has undertaken a series of studies and unique market analysis to gauge sentiment towards buying insurance and the use of credit, among personal, SME and corporate customers in 2020. The research and analysis focus on the impact of Covid-19 on the purchase of insurance and how customers have changed buying habits and shifted priorities in the wake of the pandemic.
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Friday Reading Edition 39 (18th December 2020)
In October 2020, the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) published proposals on how firms should continue to seek to help customers who hold insurance and premium finance products and may be in financial difficulty because of coronavirus.
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Friday Reading Edition 38 (11th December 2020)
This white paper looks at the climate change challenge and outlines strategies and actions that can help businesses to manage and mitigate climate change risks.
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Friday Reading Edition 38 (11th December 2020)
As local authorities grapple with another season of winter floods amid the growing realisation that we are living with climate change, Dr Bev Adams, Head of Visual Intelligence and CAT Planning at Marsh Risk Consulting, explains how local authorities can increase long-term resilience with minimal extra cost.
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Friday Reading Edition 38 (11th December 2020)
The time for stakeholder capitalism has come. There is growing evidence that companies that take a long-term view perform better – companies with strong ESG norms record higher performance and credit ratings.
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The road to future fuels Audio
Friday Reading Edition 38 (11th December 2020)
Christos Chryssakis, Business Development Manager at DNV GL, and Narve Mjøs, Director of DNV GL’s Green Shipping Programme, join Lloyd’s List Chief Correspondent Richard Clayton to discuss the next steps in the journey to carbon-neutral fuels.
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Friday Reading Edition 38 (11th December 2020)
[Free to read upon providing contact details] Warmer temperatures are expected to lead to growing frequency of severe weather events, and that these will make an increasing contribution to rising losses in the coming decades. The impacts manifest most notably in more intense secondary peril events, which are smaller to mid-sized events or the secondary effects of a primary peril.
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Friday Reading Edition 36 (27th November 2020)
From one of the world’s oldest general medical journals – the prospect of vaccines avoiding the harm and misery of extended restrictions is a cause for optimism, but we are far from ending COVID-19 as a public health issue. The vaccine trials’ results were announced via press releases, leaving many scientific uncertainties that will dictate how the vaccines will affect the course of the pandemic. Peer-reviewed publication should resolve these issues, but other questions will not be answerable for some time.
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Friday Reading Edition 36 (27th November 2020)
Given the bleak economic outlook for the year ahead, boards should be ensuring they have a robust risk management, governance and internal control framework in place. This should be underpinned by harnessing the skills, talents and resources of internal audit functions to provide independent assurance that risks are being managed and mitigated effectively.
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Friday Reading Edition 35 (20th November 2020)
US-China relations after Trump – disappointment awaits businesses who hope to see Joe Biden rushing to cancel the tariffs that Donald Trump imposed on imports from China. To maintain leverage, Biden has an interest in dismantling Trump’s trade barriers only cautiously.
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