Archive

  • Guiding Axa through Covid-19

    25 May 2020

    Axa's group chief risk officer Renaud Guidée discusses pandemic insurance pools and Covid-19 business interruption cover with Ronan McCaughey - and argues no other industry has gone so far as insurance to help customers during the crisis

  • Insurers to rethink operational resilience post Covid-19

    14 May 2020

    Insurers' operational risk management already faced scrutiny before the Covid-19 pandemic. Now, experts from Crowe and Oric International expect operational resilience to become a priority for management. Ronan McCaughey reports

  • DAV's Frank Schiller on the Solvency II review

    04 May 2020

    Germany's actuarial association has some strong opinions on how the EU's regulation needs to be reformed - or left untouched - as board member Frank Schiller explains to David Walker

  • Argo Group's risk system lights a way through Covid-19

    28 April 2020

    Alex Hindson, chief risk officer of Argo Group, explains how the Bermuda-headquartered insurer is addressing the operational, investment and underwriting risks caused by the Covid-19 pandemic. Interview by Ronan McCaughey

  • The key decisions in Samsung Life's journey to IFRS 17 implementation

    24 April 2020

    Samsung Life's Jeong Hyeok Park and Deloitte Korea's Byoung Shin tell Cintia Cheong how the insurer is implementing the new accounting regime and what they make of the recent amendments to the standard

  • Whisper it quietly... many UK motor insurers are offering Covid-19 refunds

    22 April 2020

    US motor insurers have caught the headlines with multi-million-dollar rebates to customers. Their UK counterparts seem to be in the slow lane, but under the bonnet they are taking action, as Ronan McCaughey explains

  • Generali Switzerland's three-phase approach to coping with Covid-19

    13 April 2020

    Giselle Lim, chief risk officer at Generali Switzerland, describes how the insurer is responding to the operational, capital markets and communication challenges posed by the coronavirus pandemic

  • Actuarial recruitment: a pause for the pandemic

    02 April 2020

    Cintia Cheong reports on the how the actuarial job market in the UK is faring amid the coronavirus pandemic, the IR35 tax changes and the implementation of IFRS 17

  • IFRS 17 in the UAE: the real issue is lack of expertise

    18 March 2020

    Oscar Kitasoboka, chief actuary at the UAE Insurance Authority, talks to Cintia Cheong about the IFRS 17 challenges facing the country's insurers in comparison to other regions

  • Chubb's Barney Wanstall: creating the 'end-to-end' IFRS 17 solution

    27 February 2020

    One of the biggest challenges for insurers implementing the IFRS 17 accounting standard is creating a seamless and robust system that takes in all the relevant information and produces the required numbers, as Chubb's head of IFRS 17 implementation in 25 countries explains to Cintia Cheong