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.
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 [...]
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 [...]