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.
UK Economic Outlook Text
Friday Reading Edition 65 (2nd July 2021)
As restrictions are lifted and consumers flock back, we are expecting a robust recovery ahead. Some sectors, such as manufacturing and construction, have already recovered most of the ground lost last year, while for sectors such as hospitality and personal services, the big times are now.
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Friday Reading Edition 65 (2nd July 2021)
As travel opens up, how are businesses protecting employees, and how are individual travellers staying safe?
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Friday Reading Edition 65 (2nd July 2021)
Many people have been trying to understand the nature of hard-to-detect risks or uncertainties. After Donald Rumsfeld inadvertently coined “unknown unknowns”, people started using quadrants of knowledge (i.e., known known, known unknown, unknown known, and unknown unknown) to understand and explain the nature of risk. But this study reveals that many of them were not truly unidentifiable. This study develops and suggests a model to characterise risks, especially unidentified ones.
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Friday Reading Edition 64 (25th June 2021)
From the start, the CER, a think tank, foresaw a Canada-style free trade agreement rather than a closer economic relationship, and were always optimistic that deals would be done, on both the Withdrawal Agreement and the subsequent Trade and Co-operation Agreement (TCA). What was perhaps under-estimated is how speedily the UK-EU relationship would turn sour.
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Friday Reading Edition 64 (25th June 2021)
[Subscription required] A different view, in the context of the poor results of President Macron’s party in France’s regional elections last weekend.
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Macron’s Europe Text
Friday Reading Edition 64 (25th June 2021)
Recently, French influence has grown, and if President Emmanuel Macron is re-elected in April 2022 – likely, though not certain – he will be Europe’s pre-eminent leader for several years.
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Friday Reading Edition 64 (25th June 2021)
Published on the 5th May 2021, – immediate practical actions the UK and the EU can take to stabilise and strengthen cooperation following the ratification of the Trade and Cooperation Agreement.
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Friday Reading Edition 64 (25th June 2021)
In 2020, the CII was accepted as a member of the Commonwealth family when we became a Commonwealth accredited organisation. To celebrate this development, A Commonwealth Insured focuses on the vital ways in which the insurance and personal finance professions support the Commonwealth’s priorities.
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Friday Reading Edition 64 (25th June 2021)
The current state of the data transfer regime between the UK and the EU, from the ICO.
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Friday Reading Edition 63 (18th June 2021)
Although hydrogen has been touted as a potential alternative to fossil fuels for almost half a century, it has only recently started to attract more concerted attention as governments rapidly seek to ramp up their decarbonisation efforts.
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