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 68 (30th July 2021)
The Independent Anti-Slavery Commissioner published her Annual Report for 2020-202, which outlines her work so far to achieve her objectives as outlined in the Strategic Plan 2019-2021, within the four priority areas of: improving victim care and support; supporting law enforcement and prosecutions; focusing on prevention; and getting value from research and innovation.
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Friday Reading Edition 68 (30th July 2021)
In the food, beverage and agriculture sector, there are some obvious risks in terms of environmental liabilities, such as spillages of sewage or slurry. Noelene McKenna, senior underwriter, environmental retail property and casualty UK at AXA XL explains how these risks are evolving, and the role that brokers and insurers can play in helping clients manage and transfer them.
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Friday Reading Edition 68 (30th July 2021)
Published earlier this year in March – Airmic held a roundtable as part of its Leadership Group series on in partnership with Allianz, and supported by Herbert Smith Freehills, to evaluate what businesses need to address and be aware of with regard to environmental, social, governance (ESG) issues. This paper captures the discussions at that roundtable.
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Friday Reading Edition 68 (30th July 2021)
[Free to watch upon sharing contact details] Simon Colvin of Weightmans talks about his firm's own ESG (Environmental, Social & Governance) journey and provided insight into how the ESG agenda is starting to permeate day-to-day activities in the insurance, reinsurance and claims spaces. [webinar recording]
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Friday Reading Edition 67 (16th July 2021)
[For Airmic members only] If you missed it – hear International SOS’s security and medical experts as they review the current and emerging trends, and provide key recommendations for organisations. Key topics discussed include ecopolitical turbulence exacerbating tensions, civil unrest and crime, COVID myopia and future risk blind spots.
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Friday Reading Edition 67 (16th July 2021)
Over the course of 20 minutes Mattieu Rouot, CEO of MAXIS, and Mark Cook, Director at Willis Towers Watson, look back on more than a year of COVID-19 and the impact it has had on captive employee benefit programmes and what it might mean for the future.
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Friday Reading Edition 67 (16th July 2021)
The Covid-19 pandemic has given the insurance industry a chance to prove its worth, but has also demonstrated that the industry must become more efficient in order to meet the evolving needs of its clients.
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Friday Reading Edition 67 (16th July 2021)
Given the profound uncertainties and their varying impact across business lines, insurers must commit strongly to risk-oriented, structured decision-making approaches. It is time for chief risk officers (CROs) to step up to this challenge. With their help, the industry can reinvent itself to stay relevant to customers and attractive to investors.
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Friday Reading Edition 67 (16th July 2021)
Dr Mark Parrish, Regional Medical Director (Northern Europe) at International SOS, reflects on the lessons we have learned so far from the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Friday Reading Edition 67 (16th July 2021)
[Free to read upon sharing contact details] Your people matter more than ever when it comes to cyber. Amid all the uncertainty that the pandemic has brought, the centrality of your people in the managing of cyber risks has been vividly brought into focus. What has been less clear is what you need to do to adapt. How will your people-side programmes have to change to meet the still unfolding realities of the new normal?
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