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Storebrand's insurance business hit by higher disability and P&C claims

Norwegian group raises prices to restore profitability

US government report highlights barriers to federal pandemic insurance programme

US Government Accountability Office reviewed whether the government could make pandemic insurance available to businesses

Excess UK mortality persisting into 2023

Driving factors include Covid-19 related deaths and pressure on the country's NHS

Gerhard Stahl: "We will all have to be Picassos in the future"

Systemic risks such as climate change, pandemic and cyber are posing questions about the role of insurance. Talanx's former chief risk officer discusses how actuaries, governments and regulators should step up to the challenge, in this interview with David Walker

Viral load: how actuaries used democratised data to beat Covid-19

The flood of public data on Covid-19 became a silver lining for actuaries amid the dark clouds of the pandemic, as David Walker reports

IFoA awards Stuart McDonald with prestigious Finlaison Medal

It recognises his role in the actuarial profession's response to the Covid-19 pandemic

Insurers lose Covid-19 business interruption case in UK High Court

The ruling could affect hundreds of thousands of policyholders

MSIG Asia appoints CRO, as William Song becomes CTO

Insurance actuaries must be data gatekeepers and teachers, profession is told

Actuaries have drawn positive and negative lessons from the 'data democratisation' during Covid

Portuguese actuaries forecast when next pandemic may occur

Plans for new pandemic product stymied by IFRS 17 and inflation