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.
Corporate culture and resilience key to responding to ever-evolving risks
Brokers and corporate risk managers will need to rethink their approach to risk if they hope to ensure the sustainability of their businesses over the [...]
The complex offsets in Africa’s energy transition
The difficulty in reconciling on-the-ground actions with global net-zero undertakings could have severe financial consequences for South Africa’s plan [...]
Insurers, reinsurers vie for climate change premium dividend
Up to US$20-billion in additional risk premium is up for grabs between today and 2030 as global insurers and reinsurers respond to powerful megatrends [...]
Coalition conundrums loom in South Africa if ruling party drifts below 50%
The pros and cons of a Western-styled representative democratic system will be on naked display when South Africa, with 27 million registered voters, [...]
South Africa’s Reserve Bank weighs into carbon tax impact on economy
Many of the 196 countries that signed the 2016 Paris Climate Accord are still struggling to come to terms with the economic constraints that go hand-i [...]
Hold your horses: There is no toggle switch for Africa’s fossil fuel dependence
In the course of this week, your writer caught the last few minutes of a local talk show in which two of South Africa’s largest asset managers receive [...]
South Africa has itself a Climate Change Bill, but so what
South Africa’s Climate Change Bill cleared its second-from-last hurdle recently following the adoption of the Bill by the country’s National Council o [...]
Insurers back geolocation data to mitigate extreme weather exposures
Extreme weather events linked to climate change remain at or near the top of the risk tables that non-life insurers and reinsurers must navigate in or [...]
Resilience non-negotiable as underwriters respond to evolving risk landscape
Global risk and insurance professionals seeking a single word to describe their experiences over the latest 12 months might lead with “resilience”. Th [...]
Regulators’ dilemma in balancing consumer protection and ESG agenda
From green-to-impact to social-washing, readers of recent regulatory papers on sustainable finance could be forgiven for wondering where it all ends.
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