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.
Africa’s largest stock exchanges are leading the way on sustainable disclosures
Private financial institutions such as stock exchanges will prove influential in steering African economies towards the tough climate change targets a [...]
Sustainability suffers as cyber risks top rankings, everywhere
Cyber incidents stemming from cybercrime, data breaches and information technology failures featured at the top of the 2022 Allianz Risk Barometer ran [...]
Emerging Africa needs social waypoints on its journey to net zero
Emerging market economies such as those in sub-Saharan Africa will have to consider a range of social factors alongside purely environmental measures [...]
Catastrophe losses spike as global temperatures edge higher
The latest natural catastrophe statistics may not silence the occasional crackpot climate change denialist; but they go far enough to convince the rat [...]
CCMA upholds decision to fire the unvaccinated
The right of an employer to fire an employee for refusing to comply with Covid-19 vaccine mandates in South Africa has been boosted by a January 2021 [...]
SARB quick to hike interest rates as inflation worries mount
Insurers may be interested to note that the South African Reserve Bank (SARB) has confirmed its willingness to target rising inflation, despite the ec [...]
Pandemic year one: SA insurers confirm 23.3% spike in fully underwritten life policy claims
South Africa-based life insurers have confirmed paying more than ZAR20.6bn against fully underwritten individual life policies in 2020, offering the l [...]
Just transition – not as simple as climate activists claim
As the curtains draw on the COP26 climate summit in Glasgow, Scotland, there are growing concerns over the capacity of individual country markets to a [...]
Partnerships central to Africa’s adaptation and resilience response
Partnerships between governments, institutions and the private sector will prove crucial in formulating Africa’s adaptation and resilience response to [...]
The ‘yam’ phone: putting the brakes on insurance penetration in Africa
Poor consumer tech literacy, low technology penetration and low disposable incomes are three challenges facing insurance brokers, insurers and reinsur [...]