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.
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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Les réassureurs africains tracent la voie vers la résilience et la durabilité à long terme
Les réassureurs axés sur l’Afrique relèvent le défi d’un paysage du risque en constante évolution, alors même que la persistance d’une inflation élevé [...]
Africa’s reinsurers plot a course for long-term resilience and sustainability
Africa-focused reinsurers are rising to the challenge of the increasingly evolving risk landscape, even as persistent high inflation and slowing e [...]
Push for a reasoned approach to sustainable finance disclosures
Policymakers should not rush headlong into new sustainability-focused regulations and standards without first consulting widely with industry, and per [...]
L’impact et la durabilité sont désormais le mortier des opérations de capital-investissement
L’impact et la durabilité remplacent de plus en plus les critères environnementaux, sociaux et de gouvernance (ESG) comme slogan de nombreuses confére [...]
Impact, sustainability the mortar in PE deals
Impact and sustainability are replacing environmental, social and governance (ESG) as the tagline on many insurance- and investment-focu [...]
Circular economy mindset to achieve mining, insurance sustainability in Africa
Mining firms plying their trade in Africa have a chance to improve their environmental, social and governance (ESG) outcomes by adopting a circular ec [...]