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 132 (25th November 2022)
A summary of the announcements in the Autumn Statement of 17 November 2022 and an overview of the latest economic forecasts.
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Friday Reading Edition 131 (18th November 2022)
New UK Russia sanctions legislation was published on 28 October 2022
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Friday Reading Edition 128 (28th October 2022)
Despite the economic slowdown, inflation pressures are proving broader and more persistent than anticipated. Inflation is also broadening well beyond food and energy.
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Friday Reading Edition 128 (28th October 2022)
[This page is regularly updated] The Bank of England expects inflation to stay at or a little above 10% for a few months before starting to come down.
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Friday Reading Edition 127 (21st October 2022)
This report provides an overview of how climate change will affect the insurance and investments industries; and the changes it will likely bring about.
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Friday Reading Edition 124 (30th September 2022)
[Video is free to watch; full article only available to subscribers of The Economist] Why has Kwasi Kwarteng’s mini-budget sent shock waves through the markets for the past week?
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Friday Reading Edition 124 (30th September 2022)
The outlook for the global economy has “darkened” and the world is at a point of “significant economic danger”, according to the World Economic Forum’s Chief Economists Outlook survey.
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Mini-Budget response Text
Friday Reading Edition 124 (30th September 2022)
The plan seems to be to borrow large sums at increasingly expensive rates, put government debt on an unsustainable rising path, and hope that we get better growth – says Paul Johnson, IFS Director.
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Friday Reading Edition 124 (30th September 2022)
The combination of supply chain bottlenecks, generous government spending, tight labour markets and a commodity shock triggered by the Russian invasion of Ukraine, has caused inflation to shoot well above central banks’ targets across many developed economies. That’s putting pressure on household finances and business margins.
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Friday Reading Edition 124 (30th September 2022)
UK economic growth is slowing and is widely expected to reduce to a crawl in 2023, with real GDP expansion potentially one of the lowest in the G20 group.
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