Archive

  • Ten geopolitical risks to keep you awake at night

    09 November 2023

    Timothy Less from the University of Cambridge's Centre for Geopolitics outlined the shifting power balances and powder-keg disputes that actuaries should consider. Joshua Geer reports

  • Nature risks "neglected" in insurer underwriting

    05 September 2022

    A "nature-positive" focus would improve the robustness of the insurance sector, according to a report

  • Fundamental change needed to address geopolitical risk gap

    02 September 2021

    Modelling for geopolitical risk needs to improve, says Cambridge University's Andrew Coburn

  • Mandatory climate change disclosures "are only a question of time"

    27 February 2019

    Geoff Summerhayes, board member of the Australian regulator and chair of the UNEP SIF, warns insurers of increased scrutiny

  • RMS targets efficient accumulation risk management with data schema

    02 October 2018

    Insurers have identified a need to better understand how risk accumulates across different business lines. Paul Walsh talks to RMS's Andrew Coburn to understand how the firm's new data schema will help.

  • A 1-in-200 cyber event could trigger $71bn in claims

    08 July 2015

    Lloyd's urges insurers to enhance data and develop probabilistic models

  • Catastrophe models for the 21st century

    02 October 2014

    Modern society is incredibly interconnected and creating potentially huge risks that insurers are struggling to capture. RMS's Andrew Coburn explains to Christopher Cundy how a new generation of catastrophe models could be developed to help