Archive

• 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

• Germany faces up to climate protection gap

  20 July 2023

  Germans agree they faced climate change front-on when storm Bernd hit in 2021. Two years on, they are somewhat less united on exactly how best to respond. David Walker reports

• 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

• The sky's the limit for "extremely hectic" PRT market

  10 July 2023

  Pension risk transfer (PRT) experts say markets in the UK, US and the Netherlands will continue to soar - but there are factors that may help or hinder growth, as Paul Walsh reports

• US Aggregation Method framework ready for launch

  06 July 2023

  The wheels are in motion to fix the Aggregation Method for the US and for once everyone seems happy. Gary Anderson, commissioner of the Massachusetts Division of Insurance, talks about the process towards one global capital standard

• Mass policy surrenders remain a blight on Europe's life insurers

  20 June 2023

  But reinsurers are stepping in to help manage lapse risk, and the EU's insurance chief is sanguine about the threat, as Christopher Cundy and Joshua Geer report

• Divergent views and rising rates cool progress on EU's Solvency II reforms

  16 June 2023

  One year has passed since the European Parliament's Econ committee issued its draft text on the Solvency II reforms. Joshua Geer and Christopher Cundy investigate why the agenda has not progressed - and when a breakthrough might occur

• 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

• Prudential Financial's CRO discusses interest rates, AI and climate risk

  02 June 2023

  Meyrick Douglas has contended with banking stress in the US, rising interest rates, edgy markets and ChatGPT since becoming Prudential Financial's chief risk officer in November 2022. He sits down with Ronan McCaughey to discuss. Additional reporting by Paul Walsh

• Phoenix's Leah Ramoutar: Why we should address nature and climate risk together

  30 May 2023

  A nature risk reporting framework to match the TCFD is being launched this year. Phoenix's head of climate and nature risk, Leah Ramoutar, tells Joshua Geer why insurers should consider climate and nature risk in tandem