Archive

  • Where the life insurance momentum is moving next, according to Zurich's Simon Woods

    01 July 2026

    Zurich sees ageing populations, strained state pension systems and growing retirement-income gaps as a major opening for life insurers - alongside corporate pension risk transfer. Martin Assmann reports

  • "We're not going to be a niche insurer", says CEO of UK's newest life underwriter

    17 March 2026

    Certua Life is the first launch of a protection-focused life insurer in the UK for nearly two decades. CEO Tom Williams tells Anna Sagar about his ambitions for the firm

  • 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

  • Swiss Re's Julien Descombes on life, health and IFRS

    18 February 2025

    The chief underwriting officer for life and health talks to Martin Assmann about the impact of adopting IFRS reporting and the trends in medicine and society to watch

  • Re/insurers consider a different outcome from cancer

    08 August 2024

    Once a probable death knell, a cancer diagnosis is increasingly becoming a chronic disease, thanks to advances in testing and treatment. This has significant implications for life and health re/insurers, as David Walker reports

  • Life ILS markets feel the heat from high rates

    29 May 2024

    It has been a tough period for the life insurance-linked securities (ILS) market, afflicted by higher interest rates and unexpected losses. But participants are hopeful of a revival, as Christopher Cundy reports

  • Happy 100th birthday! Yes, we can insure you

    24 April 2024

    From covering the costs of finding lost dementia sufferers, to telematics for older drivers, Japan's insurers are at the forefront of serving an ageing population, as David Walker discovers

  • Young risk professional of the year: Megan Hart, Hymans Robertson

    11 March 2024

    InsuranceERM recognises the excellent achievement of Megan Hart from Hymans Robertson who has been named young risk professional of the year.

  • Thinking outside the box on emerging risks

    08 July 2022

    Risk professionals may need to deploy more imagination if they are to address the perils that are currently going undetected. Paul Walsh reports

  • Insurers' hidden risk from reinsurance recaptures: the perspective of UK annuity writers

    01 July 2022

    Mudi Ugono and Brad Ashton discuss the findings from a working party on how a reinsurer default could affect insurer balance sheets - and how the management of this risk could be improved