Analysis

• 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

  

• Solvency II interest rate risk: a floor to cure the flaw

  31 July 2020

  Eiopa's stakeholder group has proposed an alternative solution to what it sees as a flawed proposal to reform the interest rate risk module. Christopher Cundy reports

• Covid-19's consequences for solvency, stress and scenario testing

  23 July 2020

  What lessons have been learned from the solvency risks created by the pandemic? Three experts discuss with Christopher Cundy the reactions from insurers and supervisors, and the implications for future regulation