Category: Sustainability
Insurers agree to keep sustainable development on track
Insurers have joined private sector, capital markets, government and multilateral institutions to promote long-term investment in sustainable developm [...]
AfDB launching roadmap to tackle food insecurity
Food insecurity is one of the fastest-growing risks for business and for society as a whole across Africa, with huge implications for the insurance in [...]
Focus on ESG having significant impact on power sector
Pressures on workforce availability and maintaining supply chains arising from Covid-19 are proving challenging to the power sector, according to Will [...]
Covid-19 delays Nigeria’s rise in minimum capital requirements for insurers
The Covid-19 pandemic has forced the Nigerian insurance regulator to delay plans to raise minimum capital requirements for all insurance entities.
Na [...]
Will Covid-19 result in a sea change for the gender balance at work?
As lockdowns ease across Africa, we ask Hope Murera, managing director of ZEP-RE, whether some of the changing working practices are likely to become [...]
Creating an equal awareness of ESG across insurance entities
With the UN Principles of Sustainable Insurance (UN PSI) aiming to create awareness of the ESG agenda across the insurance sector, there needs to be a [...]
VIDEO: Insurers have chance to reshape the sector, suggest regulators
African insurers have a real opportunity to build their reputation and deliver products fit for purpose, two leading African regulators agreed dur [...]
Insurers must wake up to societal risks in a post-Covid-19 era
Increasing inequality, shifting consumer behaviours and record levels of unemployment mean hard lessons need to be re-learned.
John Scott, head of [...]
Great Reset needed to drive world economy post-Covid suggests WEF
Covid-19 lockdowns may be gradually easing but anxiety about the world’s social and economic prospects is only intensifying. There is good reason to w [...]
Kenyan insurers battling to cope with Covid-19 pressures
Maintaining service standards to insureds, while controlling costs, have been the twin goals of Kenyan insurers as they cope with the Covid-19 pandemi [...]