Author: Liz Booth
Liz Booth has more than 30 years’ experience as a journalist and editor, working on a mix of consumer and business titles but, for the past decade, has concentrated on the insurance and risk sector. Having grown up in west Africa and then lived in South Africa, she has a lifelong commitment to the continent and a passionate interest in its future success.
VIDEO: Continental Re’s Pan African Re/Insurance Journalism Awards launched
Welcome to Continental Re's Pan African Re/Insurance Journalism Awards, celebrating the value of good quality journalism in a year where reliable [...]
New style of leadership required post-pandemic
A new style of leadership will have to emerge post-pandemic if business are to build resilience and survive in the changing environment.
Speaking a [...]
South Africa’s insurers have to adapt to survive
The Covid-19 pandemic and its resulting economic crisis are hitting the insurance industry in South Africa hard.
Now, in a new report on the state [...]
European investors to cease new coal and fuel oil financing, but plan to boost African investment
European Development Finance Institutions (EDFI) are to immediately cease new coal and fuel oil financing and will limit other fossil fuel financing, [...]
Smart cities offer new opportunities for insurers
A new report, Cities at risk – Building a resilient future for the world’s urban centres, published by Lloyd’s, Urban Foresight and Newcastle Universi [...]
Three quarters of managers struggling to cope with employee challenges during Covid-19 pandemic
The Conscious Workplace Report, produced by Rioch UK, has found that 75% of managers have faced employee challenges when working remotely, raising sig [...]
Major shift in climate risk management
A major shift is underway as the world’s leaders put investment in risk transfer ahead of emergency response to disasters.
In a new report, the Dev [...]
New kind of insurance force emerging across Africa
The African insurance market has been shaken up by the Covid-19 pandemic, with firms across the continent re-assessing their priorities, but it has no [...]
M-TIBA and Britam sign deal on health insurance
M-TIBA and Britam have agreed a new partnership to develop digital products to increase health insurance market penetration in Kenya.
The partnersh [...]
Governance key to disaster preparedness
This year’s International Day for Disaster Risk Reduction was all about governance, according to the UN.
It said: “You can measure good disaster ri [...]