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  • China's coronavirus outbreak could hit insurers severely - UPDATED

    24 January 2020

    Insurance experts talk to Ronan McCaughey about the mortality, operational and economic losses the deadly virus poses for the re/insurance industry

  • Making scenario planning meaningful, effective and manageable

    31 December 2019

    An expert panel at InsuranceERM's Regulation & Risk Management conference on 3 December in London shared their advice on stress and scenario planning, an activity that has become increasingly important for risk teams as they play a greater role in business strategy

  • Eiopa's Gabriel Bernardino: climate disclosures will become mandatory

    17 December 2019

    Gabriel Bernardino, chair of the European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Authority (Eiopa) joined InsuranceERM's Insurance Risk and Capital EMEA conference earlier this month. In a Q&A with Christopher Cundy, he answered questions about climate change, the Solvency II review and conduct risk

  • Keeping control over deep learning models

    17 October 2019

    How can insurers' model risk management frameworks cope with the introduction of deep learning models? Ronald Richman, Nicolai von Rummell and Mario Wüthrich explain

  • Eiopa proposes extensive reforms for Solvency II 2020 review

    15 October 2019

    Over 878 pages, the European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Authority has put forward dozens of important reforms to the EU’s solvency regime. Christopher Cundy summarises the main issues and shares his opinion on the potential impacts

  • The technology trends in risk and capital management

    10 October 2019

    As re/insurers look to implement IFRS 17, manage cyber risk and drive modelling efficiencies, software vendors are gearing up to respond. Cloud and process automation solutions also figure highly in this year's InsuranceERM Technology Guide, introduced by Ronan McCaughey

  • Views of enterprise risk management in 2030

    29 August 2019

    Chief risk officers who want to participate in the strategy of their organisations will need to develop their vision for the future of the ERM function. Willis Towers Watson executives share their views on how risk management might evolve

  • "We want clarity and certainty for IFRS 17 implementation"

    09 July 2019

    Patrick Klijnsmit, director of finance, risk & performance management and control at ASR, talks to Cintia Cheong about choosing vendors and contractors, and what he thinks of the proposed changes to the accounting standard

  • Figuring out profit emergence under IFRS 9 and IFRS 17

    13 June 2019

    Gavin Conn and Steven Morrison examine how the choice of liability discount rate affects the expected profit emergence and earnings volatility under IFRS 9 and IFRS 17

  • Regulatory doubts holding back advanced modelling

    11 June 2019

    US regulators are ill-equipped to oversee predictive models and may be slowing the adoption of new technologies, says a study by the Society of Actuaries. Sarfraz Thind reports