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.
Digitally enabled customers at the heart of end-to-end insurance solutions
Insurance brokers, insurers and reinsurers plying their trade in Africa must develop and implement digital customer engagement strategies to address p [...]
Dirty business: Fossil fuel economies face an impact-investing strangle
There are growing concerns that the trend toward impact and sustainable investing could throttle entire emerging-market industries as allocators of ca [...]
More to ESG than meets the eye
A successful implementation of South Africa’s Administration and Adjudication of Road Traffic Offences Act (AARTO) offers a peek at how lawmakers migh [...]
Allocators of capital must challenge old ways of thinking
Allocators of capital have been called on to challenge traditional investment methodologies, to improve impact and infrastructure investment outcomes. [...]
Against the ropes – managing risk for a sustainable African future
A country’s ability to manage risks across the private and public sectors is central to creating a sustainable future.
The Institute of Risk Manage [...]
South Africa’s Budget offers opportunities for insurers
Insurers have welcomed the South African Budget as a new opportunity for infrastructure investment.
South Africa’s 2021 National Budget was designe [...]
Reminder for South African insurers on compliance
South Africa’s insurers face fines of up to ZAR6,950 for failing to furnish the country’s regulatory authority with the necessary returns.
The pena [...]
Courts taking no-nonsense approach to insurers’ social responsibilities
The High Court of South Africa: Western Cape Division has joined a long list of jurisdictions to remind insurers that they must live up to the environ [...]
VIDEO: Taking ESG to another level: Naked Insurance gives back
Gareth Stokes asks Alex Thomson, co-founder of South African insurer Naked Insurance, how its business model enables the company to distribute sur [...]
Santam must pay BI claims, rules court
A South African court has ruled that the country’s largest non-life insurer Santam must pay contingent business interruption (CBI) claims following th [...]