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Hot property! Australia faces up to un-insurability threat
13 May 2022Record costs of recurring natural catastrophes risk turning property re/insurance in Australia into a niche product for low-risk homes, finds David Walker
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Sarah Williams cultivates new risk strategy at Guardian Life
10 May 2022Sarah Williams found a new job and a new hobby during the pandemic. Now chief risk officer at Guardian Life - and a keen gardener - she is planning to make both flourish, as she explains to Ronan McCaughey
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Insurers happy with UK's Solvency II plans, but capital savings remain uncertain
28 April 2022The government has grabbed positive headlines with its proposals to reform Solvency II, but the industry is cautious about the how they will pan out. Cintia Cheong reports
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The US climate split
25 April 2022The knives are out on what US insurers need reveal about their climate-related exposures. Sarfraz Thind reports
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Insurers begin long countdown to net zero
21 April 2022Some of the world's biggest insurers have joined the Net-Zero Insurance Alliance. Thomas Cox examines the challenges facing the insurance group, and how it can help tackle climate risk
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PIC's Giles Fairhead: traditional risks are colliding with global events
19 April 2022Paul Walsh sits down with PIC's CRO Giles Fairhead to reflect on today's heightened risk environment, the post-pandemic work culture and two crucial regulatory reforms for the UK's pension insurers
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C-Ross Phase II: risk-based capital with social characteristics
15 April 2022The overhaul of China's prudential rules has introduced adjustments that allow regulatory influence over how insurers underwrite and invest - with the objective of producing a social good, as David Walker reports
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Kick-off for Spain's life consolidation sector
13 April 2022On the eve of MedVida's first acquisition of a legacy life book, chief financial officer Guy Horton speaks to David Walker about pioneering a market in Iberia
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It's life Oliver, but not as we knew it
08 April 2022European life insurers' capital consumption used to give their CEOs indigestion. But the "capital-lite" diets of Allianz and others has transformed the business, as David Walker discovers
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A new standard for liability risk data
07 April 2022Open data standards for risk modelling are helping improve the efficiency and value of risk management in the insurance sector, Today, a new standard for liability risks is being launched, as Dickie Whitaker explains