Since March 2020, Airmic has been issuing Friday Reading, a curated series of readings and knowledge resources sent by email to Airmic members. The objective of Airmic Friday Reading was initially to keep members informed during the Covid-19 pandemic. Today, Airmic Friday Reading has evolved in scope to include content on a wide range of subjects with each email edition following a theme. This page is a searchable archive of all the readings and knowledge resources that have been shared.
Friday Reading Edition 93 (11th February 2022)
[Free to read upon sharing contact details] The data indicates that larger scale of losses could result if an event of the past were to occur today, given the accumulation of socio-economic value and other dynamics such as changing weather conditions in the intervening years.
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Friday Reading Edition 90 (21st January 2022)
[Free to read upon sharing contact details] Discover how leading insurers make data-driven decisions on cyber risk, learn from past incidents, and identify possible upcoming cybersecurity perils and vulnerabilities to allow underwriters to make informed and profitable decisions.
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Friday Reading Edition 90 (21st January 2022)
[Free to read upon sharing contact details] This report analyses the cyber security threat landscape, its important characteristics and their potential impacts on cyber insurance. It provides a nation state level cyber threat activity update and review current criminal cyber threat actor activities, and also highlight predictions for what to expect in the first six months of 2022.
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Friday Reading Edition 88 (7th January 2022)
Shifting views of risk replace capacity as the pre-eminent driver of renewals. The mix of heightened secondary catastrophe perils, rising core inflation, temporarily subdued social inflation and a dislocated cyber market have reset the risk landscape, adding a large dose of complexity to an already complicated underwriting environment.
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Friday Reading Edition 85 (3rd December 2021)
In the last instalment of this series, learn about business interruption losses during a cyber event, and how to mitigate them.
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Friday Reading Edition 85 (3rd December 2021)
In part two, learn more about the importance of cyber liability insurance policies.
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Friday Reading Edition 83 (19th November 2021)
A broken link in the supply chain can lead to severe disruption and is a risk only partially protected by insurance. With events of the last two years still presenting challenges for businesses, what more can they do to manage and mitigate supply chain risk?
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Friday Reading Edition 83 (19th November 2021)
As supply chains have evolved and become more complex, insuring interconnected business interruption risks has grown more challenging. This report, co-produced by Lloyd’s and AIR Worldwide, describes a novel approach to help risk managers and insurers close the protection gap before the next catastrophic supply chain disruption occurs.
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Friday Reading Edition 82 (12th November 2021)
Scientists at AIR Worldwide explain how acute physical risk from climate change is being measured in the insurance industry. They describe how catastrophe models are being built to account for climate change that has already occurred and are being adapted to quantify the future impact of climate change under a range of scenarios.
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Friday Reading Edition 82 (12th November 2021)
Insurers and reinsurers are not yet crowding to join the global race to net zero. This article assesses the reasons for such restraint and the difficulties that implementing a net zero strategy for insurers could entail.
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