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CRO of the year Americas: Pooja Rahman, Protective Life Corporation
23 June 2023Pooja Rahman won chief risk officer of the year in InsuranceERM's 2023 annual Americas awards. She tells Ronan McCaughey how her risk team at Protective Life Corporation adds value, as well as discussing artificial intelligence and ChatGPT
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Mass policy surrenders remain a blight on Europe's life insurers
20 June 2023But reinsurers are stepping in to help manage lapse risk, and the EU's insurance chief is sanguine about the threat, as Christopher Cundy and Joshua Geer report
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Divergent views and rising rates cool progress on EU's Solvency II reforms
16 June 2023One year has passed since the European Parliament's Econ committee issued its draft text on the Solvency II reforms. Joshua Geer and Christopher Cundy investigate why the agenda has not progressed - and when a breakthrough might occur
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Retail investor strategy and insurance: watch what's flying under the radar
12 June 2023The European Commission's proposals to reform retail investment rules have implications for insurers - and some of the most important consequences are not obvious, as Carlos Montalvo explains
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Insurers' TCFD reporting: differences, similarities and highlights
08 June 2023Now that many insurers have released their Taskforce on Climate-related Financial Disclosure reporting for the year, Joshua Geer compares the results and picks out highlights across the four pillars of the framework
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Inga Beale: product innovation is not achieved by adding exclusions
07 June 2023The former Lloyd's chief talks to David Walker about her frustrations with the insurance sector and why firms must be more diverse, use technology and think more creatively, in order to better serve their customers
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Prudential Financial's CRO discusses interest rates, AI and climate risk
02 June 2023Meyrick Douglas has contended with banking stress in the US, rising interest rates, edgy markets and ChatGPT since becoming Prudential Financial's chief risk officer in November 2022. He sits down with Ronan McCaughey to discuss. Additional reporting by Paul Walsh
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Phoenix's Leah Ramoutar: Why we should address nature and climate risk together
30 May 2023A nature risk reporting framework to match the TCFD is being launched this year. Phoenix's head of climate and nature risk, Leah Ramoutar, tells Joshua Geer why insurers should consider climate and nature risk in tandem
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Moody's RMS opens the door to open-source cat modelling
25 May 2023The leading catastrophe modelling firm has taken a major step in allowing its users access to third-party models, based on open-source standards, alongside its proprietary offerings. But its embrace of the open-source world is limited, as Christopher Cundy reports
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IFRS 17: simplifying accounting for multi-year reinsurance contracts
22 May 2023There are circumstances in which the Premium Allocation Approach can be used for multi-year reinsurance contracts, as Milena Lacheta explains