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News
QBE boosts risk margin after UK BI judgement
The outcome left the insurer with less headroom to cover Australian BI claims
Convex raises $500m of fresh capital from Sixth Street
Injection from Sixth Street takes total raised since launch beyond $3bn
Casualty risk mitigation needs a forward-looking view
Liability risk modeller Praedicat responds to PRA's focus on this area and Dear CRO letter
Lloyd's: Hold us accountable for our ESG ambitions
The insurance market responds to climate change campaigner's argument
QBE surprises itself in reinsurance negotiations
S&P emphasises Australia's worth to global reinsurers
IAG to take A$1.2bn hit for business interruption claims
Australian firm reports "modest increase" in reinsurance pricing
Reinsurers reverse negative trends to boost capital
Willis Re says reinsurers have largely overcome challenges posed by the Covid-19 pandemic
Pretty Sagoo: the pandemic is at the forefront of minds
Pretty Sagoo, head of new business & pensions at Athora, answers InsuranceERM's new year questions
Japan's reinsurance equivalence with EU to expire at year-end
Plans to reform Japanese solvency regime delayed by Insurance Capital Standard
Julia Chu: the pandemic taught us that everything can be correlated
Julia Chu, chief risk officer at Markel Corporation, answers InsuranceERM's new year questions
Analysis
Covid-19 claims fall short of forecasts... so far
Cintia Cheong investigates why claims related to the pandemic have failed to live up to forecasts in the early part of this year
The cloud is a silver lining amid Covid-19
Covid-19 has put to bed any doubts about the use of cloud technology for risk and capital management. The pandemic will also drive more sophisticated risk modelling, as Ronan McCaughey discusses in his review of key trends in the risk software markets
Value creation analysis finds an "enormous gap" between best and worst insurers
BCG's analysis of value creation by insurers has found a massive gap between companies, much more so than in other industries. And the challenges posed by Covid-19 are putting extra pressure on the worst performers to respond. Christopher Cundy reports
The heat is on for climate risk modelling
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It is time for catastrophe risk model developers to go beyond a piecemeal approach to addressing climate change, argues Jayanta Guin
"Wrong tone" casts insurers as Covid-19 villains
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Insurance and communication experts debated the reputation of insurance after the Covid-19 pandemic in InsuranceERM's latest webinar. Many achievements were highlighted, but a lack of empathy was a key criticism. Ronan McCaughey explains
Is a Pandemic Re the answer in a post-Covid-19 world?
Experts have debated the need for a pandemic insurance risk backstop, what it should cover and how it should be funded. Ronan McCaughey reports from the latest of InsuranceERM's Covid-19 webinar series