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.
The sixth C – conscience is gnawing at modern-day capital allocation debates
Environmental, social and governance (ESG) factors have become a hot topic within the institutional investment space.
“ESG has risen to prominence [...]
Institutional investors picking up on ESG
Institutional investors’ attitudes towards environmental, social and governance (ESG) principles have been improving in the past two years, but there [...]
Tough times ahead for South African insurance markets
South African insurers, reinsurers and risk managers are facing 11 market influences, which include: an escalation of cyber risk; the intensification [...]
International discussions underway on pandemic pool solutions
International discussions are underway on how future pandemic risks can be shared between the public and the private sector, according to the secretar [...]
South African insurer makes first donations as business model works
South Africa-based insurtech Naked Insurance has illustrated the mindshift taking place in insurer-customer interactions by handing over ZAR250,000 in [...]
85% of global investors want their capital to do good
A recent Morgan Stanley survey revealed that 85% of retail investors, which includes insurers, want their capital to be allocated to doing good and wo [...]
Speedy resolution unlikely as insureds seek BI certainty through the courts
South Africa’s non-life insurers have acknowledged the 15 September 2020 ruling handed down by the UK High Court in a test case brought against eight [...]