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 200 (10th May 2024)
Our lives are minefields of misinformation. Stories, statistics and studies lie to us on a daily basis. Not only this but, as Professor Alex Edmans reveals, our brains lie to us too. He argues that we need to acknowledge and understand the role that our own human biases play in interpreting and digesting the information that we consume.
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Friday Reading Edition 194 (22nd March 2024)
AI will affect organisations everywhere, and the greatest step forward for boards will be in terms of trust.
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Friday Reading Edition 163 (28th July 2023)
Purpose can make organisations more aware of shifting external consumer sentiments. At the same time, the enthusiasm for corporate purpose brings its own risks – a botched corporate purpose programme could do more damage than having never engaged with the idea in the first place.
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The politics of AI Text
Friday Reading Edition 162 (21st July 2023)
Speaking at London Tech Week, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and Labour leader Keir Starmer discussed tech funding, talent and AI safety.
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Friday Reading Edition 159 (30th June 2023)
Featuring Jim Wetekamp, CEO of Riskonnect CEO, who was on the keynote panel at the Airmic Conference – on how no business leader, risk manager, insurance broker, or underwriter would have anticipated having a long-running risk event (the pandemic) at the same time as a major military environment (Russia’s invasion of Ukraine) all at the same time.
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Friday Reading Edition 158 (23rd June 2023)
Mergers and acquisitions present boards with a myriad of threats and opportunities. This Guide provides a toolkit to assist directors in understanding and keeping pace with this fast-changing and increasingly complex landscape.
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Friday Reading Edition 158 (23rd June 2023)
Artificial intelligence (AI) can help equip risk professionals to bring greater value to their organisations as strategic enablers. As fears of ethical and other risks around AI grow, it will reinforce the need for human decision making and oversight.
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Friday Reading Edition 158 (23rd June 2023)
Airmic members are well positioned to bring synergy between insurers – large corporations which are making some of the most consequential climate commitments in the world today – and the businesses and organisations they are helping to navigate the climate transition
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Friday Reading Edition 158 (23rd June 2023)
As captive insurance companies become more sophisticated and attract increasing levels of parental and regulatory scrutiny, the role of and independent non-executive directors (iNEDs) in various captive domiciles on the board has continued to grow.
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Friday Reading Edition 157 (9th June 2023)
When it comes to racial and ethnic equity strategy within diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) efforts, one size does not fit all. As many as 20 of the 38 OECD countries prohibit the collection of race and ethnicity data.
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