Martin Assmann

Zurich launches £7.7bn bid for Beazley

Transaction would create a global insurance giant

Swiss Re forecasts Indian insurance market "to shine"

AM Best maintains stable outlook for the country

AIG announces partnership with private equity firm CVC

Insurers urged to simplify capital models as complexity fuels operational risk

Julien Masselot warns "gold-plating" internal models can add model risk and slow strategy

Geoeconomic confrontation tops WEF's global risk ranking

Zurich CRO calls for a more holistic view on risk

AI boom risk "on a knife edge", says Swiss Re

A market crash could lead to $10trn in household net worth lost

The battle to price bad risk

Panellists at Insurance Risk & Capital EMEA weighed public-private schemes, parametrics and data as ways to keep cover available as losses rise and tolerance for exclusions shrinks. Martin Assmann reports

2025 costliest claims year ever for non-peak perils, says Munich Re

Annual insured losses once again over $100bn

Lloyd's mulls removing lower-materiality risks from internal models, moving to partial models instead

Shift could lead to "material time and cost savings"

Nigeria developing its first national mortality and morbidity insurance tables