Archive

  • Modelling the storm in the streets

    19 May 2026

    Strikes, riots and civil commotion (SRCC) risks have little in common with hurricanes, but a similar approach on risk modelling is helping insurers understand their exposures. David Walker 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

  • An undervalued risk? Addressing property underinsurance

    19 January 2026

    As populations worldwide face sharpening threats to their property, a danger of unintentionally underinsuring their assets looms ever larger. David Walker reports

  • 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

  • Assessing risk in "highly predictable" cashflows

    19 December 2025

    UK firms with matching adjustment portfolios must put some serious thought into assessing the risks associated with investing in HP assets, as James Sharpe, Charis Adu-Kwapong and Abraham Ashraf explain

  • 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

  • Climate scenario selection becomes more tailored

    28 August 2025

    The need to make climate stress testing more relevant to business planning is causing a shift in how insurers are thinking about scenario selection. Martin Assmann reports

  • Rewriting the script on actuarial process automation

    05 August 2025

    Process automation promises to eliminate the dull and repetitive tasks actuaries typically undertake. The reality sometimes falls short, but AI technology could be a game changer. Christopher Cundy reports

  • More power for actuarial modelling

    11 July 2025

    Christopher Cundy investigates the strengths, weaknesses and applicability of two technologies - cloud and GPUs - that are helping improve the speed of actuarial modelling

  • The hidden costs of actuarial modelling systems

    04 July 2025

    Why understanding total cost of ownership means thinking beyond software licences to people, processes and risk, as Joshua Geer reports