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.
Environmental and social risks weigh on insurer sustainability
The fact that environmental and social loss events often fall within the universe of practically uninsurable ‘systemic risks’ means that these constru [...]
Seeking inclusive and sustainable insurance growth, across Africa
There is an undeniable alignment between the financial protection role played by financial institutions and the overarching goal of inclusive and sust [...]
Compliance is non-negotiable for insurer sustainability
Insurers plying their business in South Africa are learning the hard way that non-compliance with the country’s financial services regulations constit [...]
Rapid decline: another South African non-life insurer falls to solvency, liquidity concerns
The final chapter of a 70-year-old, South Africa-based, non-life insurance business is being written by the courts following a recommendation by a cou [...]
Climate change top of mind as re/insurers field flood, storm claims
Climate change remains top of mind among global insurers and reinsurers midway through 2022 as they tally up the insured losses from a stream of flood [...]
Customer resilience at the heart of sustainable insurance
The African insurance market has emerged from two years of pandemic at a bit of a crossroads, with many of the continent’s major insurance and reinsur [...]
Climate change will drive unprecedented economic and social change
The increase in frequency and severity of climate change-related extreme weather events will drive unprecedented economic and social change over the c [...]
SA’s Prudential Authority flexes its muscles, placing Constantia Insurance under provisional curatorship
South Africa’s Prudential Authority (PA) has successfully applied to the High Court to have a local non-life insurer, Constantia Insurance Company Lim [...]
Resurgence, resilience and revival… climate change and inflation set to dominate Africa’s sustainable insurance debate
There will be no shortage of topics for debate as delegates throng to the 2022 African Insurance Exchange (AIE 2022) conference. This will, after all, [...]
Future-fit insurers must accommodate changing consumer behaviours
Access to insurance, climate change and consumer behaviour emerged as unlikely companions during a ‘future of insurance’ panel discussion held during [...]