Analysis

  • The Future of Insurance: no future for guaranteed products?

    03 September 2020

    Covid-19 has heightened the threat of a low-for-long interest rate environment and is adding to doubts around the future for life insurance products with guarantees, as Paul Walsh reports

  • Covid-19 and insurance: stirred, not shaken

    01 September 2020

    Isaac Alfon and Shirley Beglinger share the findings of their survey of risk and finance executives on how they coped with the crisis - and how working environments and business practices will change after the pandemic

  • The Future of Insurance: innovation with a purpose

    27 August 2020

    According to Zurich's head of innovation, Stuart Domingos, the future of insurance should not be driven by technology but by the need to empathise with customers. He talks to Sarfraz Thind

  • Pandemic protection: what a public/private solution might look like

    24 August 2020

    Swiss Re's Ivo Menzinger has overseen many innovative public/private partnerships to insure risks at a regional and national level. Now he is focusing on pandemic protection programmes, he explains to David Walker

  • The Future of Insurance: the operational revolution

    20 August 2020

    Adapting to remote working during to the Covid-19 pandemic was never going to be an easy task. However, insurers think they have coped well and this way of working is here to stay. Paul Walsh reports in the first instalment of our Future of Insurance series

  • Value creation analysis finds an "enormous gap" between best and worst insurers

    14 August 2020

    BCG's analysis of value creation by insurers has found a massive gap between companies, much more so than in other industries. And the challenges posed by Covid-19 are putting extra pressure on the worst performers to respond. Christopher Cundy reports

  • Australia's life insurers in the emergency room

    12 August 2020

    David Walker reports on the suitability, reputational and distribution crises that are destroying the profitability of the country's life sector

  • Equality in insurance: what actions beyond the words?

    10 August 2020

    The US insurance sector was quick to state its support for black lives after George Floyd's death resonated across communities worldwide. It has a questionable history of action on racial inequality, but are things about to change? Sarfraz Thind reports

  • Herd immunity to Covid-19 may be reached sooner than thought

    04 August 2020

    Dave Ingram shows how US rates of Covid-19 infection can flatten off surprising quickly under certain scenarios - and with far lower rates of infection overall

  • The heat is on for climate risk modelling

    03 August 2020

    It is time for catastrophe risk model developers to go beyond a piecemeal approach to addressing climate change, argues Jayanta Guin

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