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Regulators consider capital for climate risk
15 December 2022Insurance regulators are keen to ensure their prudential frameworks properly incorporate climate risk. But whether this should be reflected in capital requirements is proving a difficult question to answer, as Christopher Cundy reports
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Managing climate risks - but how?
08 December 2022Rüdiger Kiesel and Gerhard Stahl argue capital charges are not sufficient for insurers to manage climate risk, and propose an approach based on the fundamentals of risk management
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"Enterprise risk" management? Or enterprise "risk management"?
30 November 2022Ari Moskowitz, group chief risk officer at Everest, explains why both approaches are critical and how to tie them together seamlessly, so businesses can see both the wood and the trees
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Championing the UK Black Actuaries Network
21 November 2022The key people behind the launch of the UK Black Actuaries Network - Chika Aghadiuno and Mudi Ugono - tell Ronan McCaughey about the aims and aspirations for the initiative and why it is so crucial
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Covid and Great Resignation 'popped the lid' on people risk
15 November 2022US insurance experts at the Insurance Risk & Capital Americas conference explained how Covid-19 has led insurers to up their game as people risk challenges begin to bite. Paul Walsh reports
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War fuels clamour for political risk insurance
08 November 2022It seemed inconceivable that Europe would be in the midst of a major war in 2022. But the events in Ukraine have pushed political risk to the fore, leaving many to ponder how to insure the unthinkable. Sarfraz Thind reports
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A risk manager's perspective on consumer duty
28 October 2022With regulators putting a tighter focus on insurers' duty towards their customers, Michael Tripp discusses the questions that risk managers should be asking of the business
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The path to sustainable cyber insurance
14 October 2022The cyber insurance market is growing rapidly, but demand exceeds current capacity and insurers may lose relevance unless they redefine the risk and improve their modelling. Joshua Geer reports
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RVS 2022: emerging risks are fattening the tail
26 September 2022The interconnectedness of emerging risks threatens to exacerbate extreme losses for reinsurers. Paul Walsh reflects on the discussions at the Rendez-Vous de Septembre (RVS) in Monte Carlo
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Stress testing reinsurer resilience to reserve shocks
06 September 2022Stuart Shipperlee discusses Litmus Analysis' examination of 35 leading reinsurance carriers to understand their overall resilience to reserve shocks, and notes very significant individual variances