Archive

• Inflation risk: not going away, still uncertain

  15 May 2023

  The UK might have passed its peak inflation rate, but that doesn't mean inflation is a historic risk, as Ronan McCaughey reports from the Institute and Faculty of Actuaries' Spring conference

• Engagement processes help insurers tie the knot on net-zero

  11 May 2023

  In order to meet their net-zero ambitions, insurers will need to bring clients and stakeholders along with them. Joshua Geer asks three heads of sustainability to explain how they are approaching engagement - and when to employ exclusions

• Will AI grow or shrink the insurance market?

  08 May 2023

  Artificial intelligence (AI) offers the opportunity for insurers to cover more risks at a reasonable price, but it also threatens insurability, as Esko Kivisaari discusses with Christopher Cundy

• AI and bank failures among top concerns for North American CROs

  04 May 2023

  The use of artificial intelligence, implications from banking collapses and people risk concerns lingering are high on the agenda of four chief risk officers, as Paul Walsh reports

• Climate alliances crumbled by anti-woke politics

  01 May 2023

  The unravelling of the Net-Zero Insurance Alliance owes a lot to right-wing US politics, where ESG and climate action is seen as a threat to business, as Sarfraz Thind discovers

• Catastrophe models lead the charge on climate risk integration

  27 April 2023

  Insurers are putting significant effort into understanding how climate affects their business - none more so than in improving their catastrophe models, as Joshua Geer reports

• Relocation, relocation, relocation: Australia debates the last resort for property insurability crisis

  25 April 2023

  The property agent's catchcry of "location, location, location" is being reinvented as homeowners face up to the growing threats from natural catastrophes and climate change. David Walker reports

• Bermuda's Premier hitting the diversity divide

  21 April 2023

  David Burt is on a drive to let the world know that Bermuda is more than just blue seas and pink sands. He speaks to Sarfraz Thind about international insurance and closing racial divides

• The implications of the net-zero transition for insurers

  19 April 2023

  As more insurers pledge to reach net-zero emissions by 2050, InsuranceERM gathered sustainability experts to discuss the risks and opportunities as firms develop their decarbonisation pathways. Paul Walsh reports

• Mental health underwriting steps out of the shadows

  17 April 2023

  The stigma of poor mental health has held back progress on developing appropriate insurance products, prompting underwriters to think hard about opening up the conversation and serving customers better. Paul Walsh reports