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.
Risk intelligence delivers an operational and underwriting edge across Africa
Multinational firms operating across the African continent have to contend with global geopolitics in addition to fragmented local regulation as they [...]
Africa on the margins at Davos climate and sustainability forum
As global leaders gathered in Davos, Switzerland, for the 2026 World Economic Forum (WEF) to advance dialogue on climate action, energy security and s [...]
Devastating floods and wildfires test South Africa’s New Year cheer
Insurers are bracing themselves after the first weeks of 2026 brought the worst flooding in 26 years to parts of South Africa’s Limpopo and Mpumalanga [...]
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 [...]