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How women can advance in insurance risk management
09 March 2021Michelle Moloney, Pacific Life Re's CRO, and Sian McAlpin, the reinsurer's CRO in Bermuda, tell Ronan McCaughey about ways to encourage women to enter and progress in the risk management sector
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"We should be asking how we attract the talent of the future"
08 March 2021Ruth Middleton, chief risk officer at AIG Life (UK), talks to Ronan McCaughey about careers for women in the insurance sector - and ways to increase gender diversity in insurers' risk functions
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"We are playing a pioneering role in terms of diversity"
08 March 2021Vienna Insurance Group's leaders, Elisabeth Stadler and Liane Hirner, get more attention because they are women - but they don't mind, as they are delivering sustained success. In this interview with Christopher Cundy, they discuss their rise to the top and how diversity improves their organisation
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The actuaries who changed the conversation on Covid
04 March 2021The Covid-19 Actuaries Response Group won the Judges' award for contribution to the industry in the InsuranceERM 2021 UK & Europe awards. Christopher Cundy speaks to the protagonists about their collaborative project and the impact it's had on society
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Catherine Drummond: black swans are more common than people think
03 March 2021Catherine Drummond, InsuranceERM's young actuarial and risk professional of the year, explains to Paul Walsh what is needed to succeed in a risk role, how the function has evolved and her push for diversity and inclusion within the industry
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Aurore Lecanon: the CRO of the year driving risk management change
02 March 2021Chief risk officer of the year in InsuranceERM's 2021 awards, Aurore Lecanon, tells Ronan McCaughey how and why she successfully modernised Prudential International Assurance's risk function. She also discusses Brexit's impact
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The new risks emerging from remote working
05 January 2021The long-term effects of relocating staff from offices to their homes, due to the Covid-19 pandemic, are beginning to be understood. Risk managers have been satisfied in some respects, but deep concerns about staff wellbeing and the impacts on culture remain. Christopher Cundy reports
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The politics of pandemics
31 December 2020Combatting the next pandemic will take a lot more than vaccines, according to Frank Schiller, a board member of Germany's actuarial association. To cover the risk, insurers will need a deft understanding and the ability to work closely with the political world, as Schiller explains to David Walker
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Covid-19 mitigation in the US: compliance drops, virus rages
29 December 2020In a follow-up to his article on applying ERM expertise to limit the spread of Covid-19, Dave Ingram reports on adherence to mitigation requirements in November, including for the key Thanksgiving holiday
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Gabriel Bernardino on four important Solvency II reforms
22 December 2020The chair of the European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Authority talks to Christopher Cundy about the main proposals to amend Solvency II and what they hope to achieve