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.
Reinsurers weigh climate change against human and infrastructure factors amid rising losses
Global reinsurers are content presenting their 2025 natural catastrophe loss reports with a climate change backdrop, despite one of the year’s costlie [...]
The value of impact and sustainable investing for Africa’s insurers
Allocators of capital have once again been called upon to consider impact and sustainability alongside return when making investment decisions. As suc [...]
Soft cycles hide hard reinsurance realities ahead of renewals in the New Year
Experience has taught profitable insurers and reinsurers to treat soft cycles with caution because the next catastrophe capable of undoing years of di [...]
EU funding in South Africa rekindles debate on Africa’s just energy transition path
As the debate on a just energy transition continues, the European Union’s (EU) latest investment package for South Africa (SA) starkly illustrates som [...]
Examining South Africa’s G20 standing through the lens of Africa Financial Markets Index
As the countdown to the G20 Leaders’ Summit in Johannesburg enters its final two weeks, US President Donald Trump has again taken aim at the event’s h [...]
South Africa’s insurers confront the profitability-sustainability trade-off
The key to a successful insurance business is being able to balance short-term performance with long-term stability. To stand out from their peers, in [...]
Future-fit risk management fuels sustainable insurance and corporate profitability
A structured approach to risk management can deliver cost savings and resource optimisation without undermining the long-term sustainability of the in [...]
Collaboration and sustainability emerging as the new frontier in risk management
Africa’s insurers and reinsurers are not the only entities seeking to make sense of risk exposures in an uncertain and volatile world.
They are [...]
La collaboration et la durabilité apparaissent comme la nouvelle frontière de la gestion des risques
Les assureurs et réassureurs africains ne sont pas les seuls à chercher à mieux comprendre les expositions aux risques dans un monde incertain et vola [...]
Geopolitical shifts demand greater attention from Africa’s underwriters
The convergence of geopolitics with traditional risk drivers is reshaping distribution and underwriting decisions across Africa, adding to the com [...]