Herd mentality is stopping industry progressing, warn insurers
Insurers need to "get hands dirty" on cyber and other new, more complex risks
Reask and Fathom offer combined wind and flood risk models
Firms say partnership is driven by demand for better risk data and models
Conduit Re: starting up in shutdown
Bermuda's fledgling reinsurer, Conduit Re, raised a staggering $1bn in the midst of the pandemic and has readied itself to enter the market this year. Sarfraz Thind speaks to CRO Andrew Smith about how a slick little insurer got off the ground
Three emerging risks for the 2020s
Andrew Smith, chief risk officer at Qatar Re, discusses three less-discussed risks for insurers that are set to emerge over the next decade
Andrew Smith questions longevity hedge in equity-release mortgages
Paper on ERMs to be presented to Society of Actuaries in Ireland today
Scientists hit out at US flood risk model attempts
Academics call for research into links to global warming
Where next for economic scenario generators?
Insurers have for decades relied on economic scenario generators (ESGs) in their risk modelling, asset management and business steering. Christopher Cundy investigates what the next big developments might be in this important piece of modelling software
UK's problem with Solvency II isn't EU red tape: it's gold plating
MPs investigating post-Brexit Solvency II reforms should focus on the UK regulator, rather than Brussels bureaucrats, according to insurers. Far from throwing off the shackles of Europe, most firms hope any changes will be minor and phased in slowly. Callum Tanner reports
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