Archive

  • Life insurers' capital needs to rise after bird flu research resumes

    01 February 2013

    Risk of man-made pandemic from avian flu research increased, RMS warns

  • Insurers need global view on nat cat exposures

    16 January 2013

    2011 global losses were well within range insurers should be prepared for, says AIR

  • Insurers should be ready for solar storm

    14 January 2013

    Peak due in early 2013, says Aon Benfield Analytics

  • From the Talmud and Markowitz to a holistic picture of risk

    10 January 2013

    Systems thinking helps risk modellers develop a more dynamic, responsive analysis of complex systems. Matt Cocke and Richard See-Toh track developments from 4 BC to today's ERM approach

  • Predictive modelling needs man and machine to co-exist

    21 August 2012

    Predictive models used by insurers to manage risk and capital and support pricing could become automated, commodity items. But human judgement and overall method will remain the keys to refining models in the future, according to Duncan Anderson