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Alaska's Lori Wing-Heier: we are not ready to walk away from fossil fuels
26 July 2023The director of Alaska's Division of Insurance tells Ronan McCaughey how a changing climate is affecting the state and why shutting down the oil and gas industry isn't the answer
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Insuring AI
24 July 2023To its knowledge, Munich Re was the first insurer in the world to start insuring artificial intelligence risk. Iris Devriese speaks to Sarfraz Thind about how the business developed and the impact of Generative AI
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Germany faces up to climate protection gap
20 July 2023Germans agree they faced climate change front-on when storm Bernd hit in 2021. Two years on, they are somewhat less united on exactly how best to respond. David Walker reports
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Gerhard Stahl: "We will all have to be Picassos in the future"
18 July 2023Systemic risks such as climate change, pandemic and cyber are posing questions about the role of insurance. Talanx's former chief risk officer discusses how actuaries, governments and regulators should step up to the challenge, in this interview with David Walker
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Viral load: how actuaries used democratised data to beat Covid-19
13 July 2023The flood of public data on Covid-19 became a silver lining for actuaries amid the dark clouds of the pandemic, as David Walker reports
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The sky's the limit for "extremely hectic" PRT market
10 July 2023Pension risk transfer (PRT) experts say markets in the UK, US and the Netherlands will continue to soar - but there are factors that may help or hinder growth, as Paul Walsh reports
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US Aggregation Method framework ready for launch
06 July 2023The wheels are in motion to fix the Aggregation Method for the US and for once everyone seems happy. Gary Anderson, commissioner of the Massachusetts Division of Insurance, talks about the process towards one global capital standard
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Lapse risk and capital management strategies: rewriting the script
04 July 2023Mass lapse risk has returned to haunt European life insurers, prompted a rethink of the approach to risk and capital management, as Luca Tres explains in the second of this two-part series
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Petra Hielkema discusses sustainability in Solvency II, transition plans and greenwashing
29 June 2023The chair of the European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Authority sits down with Joshua Geer to share her views on how sustainability can be implemented in Solvency II, why she is not pushing for transition plans and the regulatory scope for greenwashing
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Lapse risk and capital management strategies: back in the spotlight
27 June 2023Mass lapse risk has returned to haunt European life insurers, prompted a rethink of the approach to risk and capital management, as Luca Tres explains in the first of this two-part series