Author: Liz Booth
Lawrence Nazare named as new CEO for Continental Re
Continental Reinsurance Plc has announced Lawrence Mutsunge Nazare will replace Dr Femi Oyetunji as group managing director of the company, effective [...]
Golden opportunity for insurers to grow their business
Insurers have a golden opportunity to enhance or extend their product portfolios in the face of changing physical risk patterns, according to a panel [...]
Is insurtech set to boom after Covid-19?
The role of insurtech is never far from the agenda when it comes to building a more sustainable insurance industry across Africa. Liz Booth talks [...]
ASR partners with GIC of India and Peak Re to launch new capacity for African insurance markets
Africa Specialty Risks (ASR) has secured additional multi-year binder capacity of up to $25m per risk through a partnership with GIC of India (GIC) (A [...]
VIDEO: Embedding ESG principles into your business
Mikir Shah, CEO of Africa Specialty Risks, discusses adopting
ESG within your business and the importance of embedding
those principles into you [...]
ESG set to drive business transformation suggests PwC
Even before Covid-19 upended business and society, the environmental, social and governance (ESG) movement was gaining steam, according to PwC.
In [...]
Insurance has key role in supporting governments through Covid-19
There are many ways to support the recovery efforts post-Covid-19, believes Manual Moses (pictured), the new CEO of ATI. The initial focus, he said, w [...]
Insurers have crucial role to play in transition towards a more sustainable climate
Managing risk is the purpose of the insurance business. Therefore, better understanding climate-related risks and opportunities and publishing decisio [...]
VIDEO: Putting the UN PSI Principles into practice
As the UN Principles for Sustainable Insurance initiative launches a major report – Insuring the climate transition – Liz Booth speaks to Dorothy [...]
UNEPFI puts cost of global warming into perspective
The cost of climate change will quickly become unacceptably high, according to delegates from the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) at a global climate [...]