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  • Lapse risk and capital management strategies: back in the spotlight

    27 June 2023

    Mass lapse risk has returned to haunt European life insurers, prompted a rethink of the approach to risk and capital management, as Luca Tres explains in the first of this two-part series

  • Insurers' TCFD reporting: differences, similarities and highlights

    08 June 2023

    Now that many insurers have released their Taskforce on Climate-related Financial Disclosure reporting for the year, Joshua Geer compares the results and picks out highlights across the four pillars of the framework

  • 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

  • AI and bank failures among top concerns for North American CROs

    04 May 2023

    The use of artificial intelligence, implications from banking collapses and people risk concerns lingering are high on the agenda of four chief risk officers, as Paul Walsh reports

  • Insurance risk recruitment trends: salaries rise for sustainability experts

    13 April 2023

    Risk and actuarial recruitment in the UK insurance sector boomed in 2022 and people with expertise in ESG, asset management and coding remain in high demand. Ronan McCaughey reports

  • Judges' award for contribution to the industry: David Otudeko

    02 March 2023

    Winner of the 2023 InsuranceERM UK & Europe judges' award, David Otudeko, talks to Christopher Cundy about his rollercoaster year

  • CRO of the year: Tom Hughes, Domestic & General

    01 March 2023

    Tom Hughes won chief risk officer of the year in InsuranceERM's 2023 Annual Awards for UK & Europe. He talks to Ronan McCaughey about managing risk during a period of macroeconomic turmoil

  • The enduring risks from the Ukraine war

    27 February 2023

    After 12 months of conflict, the risk landscape for international insurers has been drastically changed. Paul Walsh finds the marine and aviation sectors particularly affected, while geopolitical risks remain heightened for all

  • One year of war in Ukraine and the country's insurers remain defiant

    24 February 2023

    Vyacheslav Chernyakhovsky, general director for the Insurance Business Association of Ukraine, discusses with Paul Walsh how the country's sector has performed and the post-war strategy