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German actuaries review the Review of Solvency II
22 November 2021Dissecting documents with a fine-tooth comb is natural for actuaries. After applying one to the European Commission's proposals for Solvency II reform, German Association of Actuaries board member Frank Schiller spoke to David Walker
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Eiopa's Petra Hielkema: stress tests and Orsas are good for climate risk management
12 November 2021The chair of the EU's insurance authority talks to Christopher Cundy about the supervision of sustainability issues and explains why the own risk and solvency assessment (Orsa) and stress testing are the most important tools, right now
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Rising expectations: how supervisors are acting on climate change
21 October 2021Anna Sweeney explains how global supervisors are collaborating in order to help insurers grasp the implications of climate change - and improve the sector's response to the risk
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Climate risk enables insurance technology to blaze a trail
13 September 2021Acute regulatory, shareholder and consumer pressure on climate change is fuelling increasing demand from insurers for technology to assess the impact of climate risk. Ronan McCaughey explains how insurance software vendors are responding to the challenge
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Social inflation: 800lbs gorilla or 80lbs monkey?
08 September 2021Casualty insurers are complaining about rising liability losses, driven by a litigious US culture and changing social attitudes. But could a far worse catastrophe be ahead of them? Sarfraz Thind reports
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The US Climate Survey: good, bad and ugly
03 August 2021US insurers' efforts to understand and mitigate climate risks is difficult to discern, but the NYDFS and InsuranceERM have dug into the NAIC's annual survey to find patchy progress and some surprising opinions. Sarfraz Thind and David Walker report
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Allianz's Aylin Somersan Coqui: with crises come opportunities
28 July 2021The chief risk officer of one of the world's largest insurers talks to Cintia Cheong about her changing role, the risks Allianz faces and how Covid-19 has changed the way risk is managed
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Insurers face "carrot or stick" decisions on climate change
30 June 2021Underwriters' response to climate change in their day-to-day business has become a major bone of contention and is often boiling down to a debate over whether the focus should be on incentives or punishments. Paul Walsh reports
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Sustainable underwriting is more arduous than sustainable investment
10 June 2021Axa, Zurich and Aviva discussed their journeys to carbon neutrality at the IDF Summit this week, and how they will meet their commitments to net-zero underwriting. Cintia Cheong reports
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UK use of matching adjustment keeps growing
23 May 2021Christopher Cundy delves into the 2020 solvency reports to find insurers have enjoyed an increase in their capital benefit by more than 10% on the previous year