Archive

  • Insuring an uninsurable world - the pricing actuary's Mission Impossible?

    25 June 2025

    David Walker investigates the dilemma facing actuaries in pricing property cover to reflect increasing risks, while balancing considerations of affordability, fairness and insurers' social contract

  • Australia's property insurance model caught off-guard by climate change

    17 December 2024

    A series of unprecedented disasters has revealed serious flaws in how the non-life insurance sector operates, but critics are making suggestions on how to improve matters, as David Walker discovers

  • Australian actuary suggests tying executive bonuses to acting 'fairly' for customers

    29 October 2024

    Country's insurers have faced barrages of criticism from stakeholders recently

  • Australia's life insurers in the emergency room

    12 August 2020

    David Walker reports on the suitability, reputational and distribution crises that are destroying the profitability of the country's life sector