Author: Gareth Stokes
Gareth Stokes is an award-winning financial journalist with more than two decades’ experience writing in the financial advice, insurance and investment disciplines.
Insurers rattled as extreme weather resets South Africa’s risk outlook
The benign catastrophe loss experience celebrated by South Africa’s insurers in their 2024 and 2025 annual reports has been ripped asunder by signific [...]
Early warnings could be Africa’s first line of defence against climate losses
Africa’s largest general insurer, Santam Limited, has partnered with the South African Weather Service (SAWS) to improve the country’s weather forecas [...]
How AI risks in compliance spill over into broader insurance sustainability
The elephant in the room in the 21st-century risk landscape is not how insurers and reinsurers are deploying artificial intelligence (AI) across the i [...]
Une table ronde met en lumière les risques interdépendants qui accroissent la complexité du secteur de l’assurance en Afrique
Selon les dirigeants d'Old Mutual Insure, les risques interdépendants redessinent le paysage de l'assurance en Afrique. Lors d'une récente table ronde [...]
Round table spotlights interconnected risks driving insurance complexity in Africa
Interconnected risks are reshaping Africa’s insurance landscape, according to Old Mutual Insure executives, who warned at a recent round table tha [...]
Africa’s sustainable finance challenge is moving beyond risk to impact
Allocators of capital that wish to stand out in today’s competitive global finance and investment landscape must find ways to create impact in add [...]
Le défi de la finance durable en Afrique: aller au-delà du risque pour créer un impact
Les acteurs chargés de l'allocation des capitaux qui souhaitent se démarquer dans le paysage mondial concurrentiel de la finance et de l'investissemen [...]
Middle East tensions ripple across insurance and commodity markets, reaching Africa
It did not take long for the Iran-Israel-United States (US) conflict to spill over into the entire Middle East region, resulting in major disrupti [...]
Les tensions au Moyen-Orient se répercutent sur les marchés de l’assurance et des matières premières, touchant l’Afrique
Il n'a pas fallu longtemps pour que le conflit entre l'Iran, Israël et les États-Unis s'étende à l'ensemble du Moyen-Orient, entraînant des perturbati [...]
Allocators of capital optimistic over reclassification of carbon credits
Africa has some work to do to catch up with the European Union and other developed markets in the integration of carbon credit infrastructure into fin [...]