Archive

  • 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

  • Insurance risk recruitment trends: salaries rise for sustainability experts

    13 April 2023

    Risk and actuarial recruitment in the UK insurance sector boomed in 2022 and people with expertise in ESG, asset management and coding remain in high demand. Ronan McCaughey reports

  • IFRS 17: where is the value, and was it worth it?

    06 April 2023

    The new insurance contracts accounting standard is costing billions to implement, but has it been worthwhile? Experts at InsuranceERM's IFRS 17 conference addressed this question, as Joshua Geer reports