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.
Are financial sector regulators overstepping by entering the climate, sustainability debates?
The days of financial sector regulators focusing exclusively on the matters they are tasked with regulating appear to be over, as they expand their ju [...]
Sometimes, these just-transition disciples be living in another world, far from Africa
The frenzied competition among leading global brands to dominate the climate change, just transition and net-zero discourse shows little sign of abati [...]
Five ways to leverage ESG for business sustainability
As the global sustainability landscape focuses on big-picture constructs like climate change; greenhouse gas emissions; net-zero and renewable energy, [...]
Common sense and social consequence should be part of the net-zero debate
If you spend enough time on YouTube and other social media platforms, and you are prepared to entertain content that does not conform to the mainstrea [...]
Like it or not, hard reinsurance markets are part of the re/insurer sustainability paradigm
Any self-respecting insurance or reinsurance expert can rattle off a long risk of reasons for hard or hardening reinsurance markets. They fail to ment [...]
Africa Inc builds trust, creates value on the back of ESG
Businesses across Africa, including the insurance sector, are leveraging their environmental, social and governance (ESG) strategies to build trust an [...]
Consumers will judge insurers’ sustainability credentials
Firms in the insurance industry are increasingly being judged by consumers – and society – for their achievements or shortcomings in non-insurance are [...]
Climate change is redefining global risk frontiers
Climate change, geopolitics and pandemic are shifting the risk frontier that multinational firms must negotiate to meet the health and “safety and sec [...]
Budgets, energy woes and how (alleged) corruption threatens SA’s just transition
The 2023 National Budget speech delivered by South Africa’s Minister of Finance, Enoch Godongwana, placed a high priority on addressing the country’s [...]
Taking climate-related catastrophe in its stride: SA leading general insurer posts profit despite tough underwriting environment
South Africa’s leading general insurer, Santam Limited, reported strong growth in gross written premiums (GWP) and an “acceptable net profit” for its [...]