Archive

  • London Climate Action Week: Industry ponders how to make nature insurance "less painful"

    25 June 2026

    The excitement around insuring nature is giving way to harder questions about standards, scale, greenwashing and whether insurers have priced the risk correctly. Joshua Geer reports

  • The wildfire mitigation blueprint aiming to stabilise California insurance

    27 May 2026

    David Walker finds that a playbook for US communities to lessen the risks from wildfires emerges from cross-disciplinary lateral thinking

  • Managing Europe's SME climate risk challenge

    21 May 2026

    As climate volatility increases and protection gaps persist, Generali's Lucia Silva tells Joshua Geer how insurers can help SMEs move from recovery to prevention and resilience

  • Inside Eiopa's push to close the protection gap

    01 May 2026

    Europe's insurance authority has launched a sweeping sustainability agenda that puts protection gaps, natcat risk pools and climate adaptation front and centre. Joshua Geer reports

  • Heeding the warnings on city wildfire risk

    31 March 2026

    Risk modellers have long warned of the wildfire risks to cities. Since the disastrous infernos in Los Angeles, people have begun to listen, as David Walker reports

  • Risk leaders brace for a year of compounding uncertainty

    29 January 2026

    InsuranceERM's annual survey reveals how insurers are preparing for an increasingly interconnected risk landscape in 2026. Joshua Geer reports

  • The Sam Woods "exit interview": Solvency II, sustainability risks and the secondary objective

    22 January 2026

    In his final appearance before the UK's Treasury Committee, the CEO of the Prudential Regulation Authority reflected on his decade in the role and the future direction for regulation. Joshua Geer reports

  • Towards better climate scenario analysis

    09 January 2026

    The PRA/FCA Climate Financial Risk Forum (CFRF) has developed a free Online Climate Scenario Analysis Narrative tool to help financial institutions understand and explain future impacts from climate change. Loubna Benkirane explains how it works

  • How climate change is rewriting life and health insurance risk

    30 December 2025

    As climate impacts shift from episodic shocks to structural pressures, Generali's Gerardo Di Filippo describes the challenges it poses to traditional risk modelling, product design and capital planning. Joshua Geer reports

  • IR&C EMEA: What the audience said about the state of risk management

    05 December 2025

    InsuranceERM's annual Insurance Risk & Capital EMEA conference returned to London this week. Martin Assmann and the editorial team report on what we learnt from the audience polling