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  • Geopolitics remains the worry for insurers in 2024

    30 September 2024

    Of the many topics discussed at the Insurance Risk & Capital 2024 conference in New York, the risks associated with geopolitics and its implications for the sector were the most enthralling. Sarfraz Thind reports

  • CROs are booting up AI for risk management

    19 September 2024

    Chief risk officers at insurers in the UK, Europe and the US are hungry to deploy artificial intelligence for risk management and modelling. Ronan McCaughey explains

  • LGRA's CEO talks up the three trillion PRT opportunity

    26 August 2024

    George Palms has built Legal and General Retirement America's US PRT business from scratch. But he sees much more opportunity for growth, he tells Sarfraz Thind

  • Canadian market faces a transitional period

    22 August 2024

    The Canadian insurance market is currently shifting from a hard to a soft market and faces emerging challenges, Houssam Yehya, head of international at GBN Risk Solutions, a managing general agent (MGA) in Canada, speaks to Joshua Geer

  • What world leaders need to know about the insurance sector

    19 August 2024

    Major protection gaps are opening up in natural catastrophes, pensions, cyber and health. Closing them is possible, but only if the appropriate regulations are in place, argues Susan K. Neely

  • Admiral Group CRO drives charge on electric vehicles

    31 July 2024

    Ronan McCaughey why the UK-headquartered insurer sees opportunities in electric vehicles, its sustainability strategy and why third-party risk is so important

  • Generali's Gerardo Di Filippo on embracing revolutionary change in risk management

    18 July 2024

    The group head of risk management process and operations at Generali discusses how the risk function is evolving in response to the climate, AI and geopolitical megatrends. Joshua Geer reports

  • Actuaries urge insurers to stay grounded on Gen AI dreams and nightmares

    09 July 2024

    Generative artificial intelligence might be 'just another tool', but it's one whose potential risks and opportunities demand close attention, as Joshua Geer reports from the European Congress of Actuaries

  • CRO of the year Americas: Halina von dem Hagen

    13 June 2024

    Halina von dem Hagen sees risk everywhere. But her many years of insurance experience have told her the best way to meet it is not through avoidance, but structure.

  • Your CEO asks to cut the costs of risk and compliance. What do you do?

    11 June 2024

    Being asked to look at the cost of risk and compliance isn't necessarily a threat. Instead, it can provide an opportunity to move the functions from adolescence into adulthood, argues Justin Elks