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Eiopa in 2021: more staff, more responsibilities
02 November 2020Europe's insurance authority is hiring nearly 35 more staff as its responsibilities grow. Executive director Fausto Parente explains what they will be doing, in conversation with Christopher Cundy
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ERM plays catchup on digital transformation
29 October 2020Digital transformation has long been heralded as a game changer for the insurance business. However, its impact has mostly been confined to insurers' front-end processes - with risk and capital functions proving more challenging to digitalise. Ronan McCaughey explains
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Applying ERM expertise to limit the spread of Covid-19
21 October 2020What can enterprise risk management experts offer to society in the pandemic? Quite a lot, as Dave Ingram and Dan Ingram explain, in their COVID Mitigation Monitoring Project
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A hot take on the UK's Solvency II call for evidence
20 October 2020Christopher Cundy analyses what the British government is considering changing about its implementation of Solvency II, and what the implications might be for insurers and other stakeholders
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Prudential Financial's Nick Silitch: running his own version of risk
19 October 2020The chief risk officer of the largest US life insurer talks to Sarfraz Thind about how he shaped his role and the risk function, and reveals the impact of the pandemic on the group
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Taking a new direction in life
15 October 2020China Taiping Insurance Singapore, a long-established non-life insurer, has taken the rare step of diversifying into life business. David Walker talks to the man leading the move, Lance Tay
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How actuaries can make a difference on climate risk
14 October 2020Actuaries can play important roles in helping to address the challenges of climate-related risks, according to the International Actuarial Association. Ronan McCaughey reports
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Cracks in the normal distribution challenge CROs
09 October 2020Covid-19 is changing the way chief risk officers think and work. Eric Clapprood and David Sherwood talk to Sarfraz Thind about why CROs may need to focus on less extreme risks, and how they can adapt to the new normal
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Covid-19 is bad, but cyberattacks and climate change may be worse
01 October 2020...so say the world's top reinsurers when asked about the most severe risks facing the industry. Paul Walsh reports
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Covid-19 claims fall short of forecasts... so far
29 September 2020Cintia Cheong investigates why claims related to the pandemic have failed to live up to forecasts in the early part of this year
- Life reinsurers spy a goldmine in Asia
- Asset-intensive reinsurance intensively assessed
- Insurance, Climate Change and the Law: how to be an enabler, not a doomist, on climate action
- Pensions CRO calls out racist and sexist remarks
- UK's Consumer Duty: a headache on top of a cost-of-living crisis
- Munich Re's syndicate "significantly" helps to cut group underwriting emissions by 80%
- Swiss Re's group CEO Christian Mumenthaler to step down
- IFRS 17 may unlock fresh metrics for analysing insurers' growth, says KPMG
- Has IFRS 17 improved comparability and consistency? The jury is still out
- Climate litigation's third wave could leave insurers in deep water