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.
Global energy shocks demand a bigger role for insurers in Africa
Energy has taken centre stage across Africa as the US-Iran conflict and consequent disruption to traffic through the Strait of Hormuz winds into its s [...]
Les assureurs doivent aller au-delà du simple remboursement des sinistres pour combler le déficit de financement de la résilience en Afrique
Les assureurs et réassureurs africains peuvent faire bien plus que protéger les actifs et le chiffre d’affaires de leurs assurés contre les risques. I [...]
Insurers challenged to move beyond paying losses to closing Africa’s resilience financing gap
Africa’s insurers and reinsurers can do way more than protect policyholders’ assets and turnovers from perils. They also have the opportunity to i [...]
Insurers urged to confront Africa’s capital misallocation crisis
Africa is not capital poor; it is awash with capital that is being misallocated. This was among the standout soundbites delivered to around 1,500 Afri [...]
Africa’s AI infrastructure buildout creates new test for insurer sustainability
Global insurers and reinsurers with clients in the compute, data centre and power utility sectors are in for a tumultuous decade as demand grows for i [...]
Geopolitical shocks elevate trade credit insurance as Africa’s trade resilience tool
African businesses need little reminder of the disruption caused to supply routes and cross-border trade by geopolitics and war. At any time, ther [...]
Les chocs géopolitiques renforcent le rôle de l’assurance-crédit commercial en tant qu’outil de résilience commerciale pour l’Afrique
Les entreprises africaines n’ont pas besoin qu’on leur rappelle les perturbations causées aux voies d’approvisionnement et au commerce transfrontalier [...]
Africa’s re/insurers at the crossroads of geopolitics and the AI revolution
Africa’s insurers and reinsurers will play a significant role in enabling the reindustrialisation that is taking place as today’s apparently cyclical [...]
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 [...]