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A new chapter for Solvency II's SFCR
30 August 2023Modifications to the solvency and financial condition report (SFCR) have been mooted in the UK and EU, although insurers and users have urged caution on any potential changes. Paul Walsh reports
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Actuaries called to arms in climate change battle
23 August 2023The actuarial profession has skills and tools that can be brought to good use as the world transitions to a net-zero emissions economy, as David Walker reports
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Canopius's Sheldon Lacy: risk functions connect the dots, so the business can thrive
21 August 2023The speciality re/insurer's CRO discusses with Ronan McCaughey how a structured programme of transformation has impacted the risk function, and how it's making progress on climate risk and DEI
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With a watered-down NZIA, where do insurers' climate commitments stand?
16 August 2023After six of the eight founding members left the Net-Zero Insurance Alliance, Joshua Geer investigates if their ambitions stand
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Rethinking our relationship with catastrophe models
14 August 2023Catastrophe models provide insights for underwriters and risk managers about how to price re/insurance and manage accumulation risk. But the relationship is fraught with some fundamental problems that Tom Philp wants to solve, as he explains to Christopher Cundy
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From Swahili chatbots to Ogden adaptations, actuaries double down on insurance inclusivity
10 August 2023Across emerging economies, actuaries are working to broaden access to insurance cover, then sharing the wealth of their knowledge, as David Walker discovers
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Social inflation comes to Europe
07 August 2023The drivers are different, but the effect is similar: court judgements that have pained US insurers are spreading to Europe. Sarfraz Thind speaks to Henning Schaloske about the issue
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Data and AI: insurer and regulator go tête à tête
03 August 2023On a panel discussion at Insurance Europe's conference, Eiopa's Petra Hielkema and Alm. Brand's Anne Mette Toftegaard debated consumer trust, data, AI and the regulation that weaves them together, as Joshua Geer reports
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Zurich's Colleen Zitt: a constructive approach to risk management
01 August 2023Colleen Zitt has certainly had her hands full in the three years since she became Zurich North America's CRO. But the experience has advanced her ability to manage risk, she tells Sarfraz Thind
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Quantum computing and AI power actuarial modelling breakthroughs
28 July 2023When identifying, analysing and pricing risk, non-life actuaries are finding classical approaches just don't cut it. Artificial intelligence, quantum computing and novel data sources are showing the way forward, as David Walker reports