Archive

  • Actuaries called to arms in climate change battle

    23 August 2023

    The actuarial profession has skills and tools that can be brought to good use as the world transitions to a net-zero emissions economy, as David Walker reports

  • Canopius's Sheldon Lacy: risk functions connect the dots, so the business can thrive

    21 August 2023

    The speciality re/insurer's CRO discusses with Ronan McCaughey how a structured programme of transformation has impacted the risk function, and how it's making progress on climate risk and DEI

  • Alaska's Lori Wing-Heier: we are not ready to walk away from fossil fuels

    26 July 2023

    The director of Alaska's Division of Insurance tells Ronan McCaughey how a changing climate is affecting the state and why shutting down the oil and gas industry isn't the answer

  • Insuring AI

    24 July 2023

    To its knowledge, Munich Re was the first insurer in the world to start insuring artificial intelligence risk. Iris Devriese speaks to Sarfraz Thind about how the business developed and the impact of Generative AI

  • Gerhard Stahl: "We will all have to be Picassos in the future"

    18 July 2023

    Systemic risks such as climate change, pandemic and cyber are posing questions about the role of insurance. Talanx's former chief risk officer discusses how actuaries, governments and regulators should step up to the challenge, in this interview with David Walker

  • Viral load: how actuaries used democratised data to beat Covid-19

    13 July 2023

    The flood of public data on Covid-19 became a silver lining for actuaries amid the dark clouds of the pandemic, as David Walker reports

  • Petra Hielkema discusses sustainability in Solvency II, transition plans and greenwashing

    29 June 2023

    The chair of the European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Authority sits down with Joshua Geer to share her views on how sustainability can be implemented in Solvency II, why she is not pushing for transition plans and the regulatory scope for greenwashing

  • Retail investor strategy and insurance: watch what's flying under the radar

    12 June 2023

    The European Commission's proposals to reform retail investment rules have implications for insurers - and some of the most important consequences are not obvious, as Carlos Montalvo explains

  • Inga Beale: product innovation is not achieved by adding exclusions

    07 June 2023

    The former Lloyd's chief talks to David Walker about her frustrations with the insurance sector and why firms must be more diverse, use technology and think more creatively, in order to better serve their customers

  • Bermuda's Premier hitting the diversity divide

    21 April 2023

    David Burt is on a drive to let the world know that Bermuda is more than just blue seas and pink sands. He speaks to Sarfraz Thind about international insurance and closing racial divides