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News
Caribbean insurers face up to $85bn losses from Maria, AIR estimates
Puerto Rico absorbs more than 85% of the loss
Lloyd's hires catastrophe risk expert from Scor
Kirsten Mitchell-Wallace succeeds David Clouston
Expected US and Caribbean hurricane losses - UPDATED
Mapfre estimates net loss impact and warns of ROE and CR miss
MetaRisk adds support for BCAR and hours clauses
Version 10 also updates automation tools
FSOC to ponder removal of AIG's Sifi status - report
AIG was designated as a systemically important financial institution under the Dodd-Frank Act
GDV responds to BaFin's Orsa criticisms
Bermuda's Premier to open Insurance Risk & Capital conference
Scor to confront climate campaigners on coal underwriting
Category 5 hurricane Maria tears through Caribbean
BaFin considers data age-ceiling for Orsa documents
Canada Life Re and Prudential Financial in £3.4bn longevity risk deal
Irma and Harvey losses to may eliminate P&C reinsurance profits
Analysis
BaFin pulls no punches in explaining Orsa shortcomings
Germany's regulator has said insurers must improve virtually all aspects of their Orsa reporting for 2018. David Walker reports
Defining company culture in five questions
An 'inappropriate culture' often takes the blame for all kinds of corporate misdemeanour, but judging the culture and correcting the failings can challenge the best of firms. Paul Harwood suggests a strategy to help management get it right
Reinsuring Africa in a soft market: One Re CRO
The young reinsurer One Re is somewhat of a specialist, focusing as it does on non-life risks facing clients in Africa. But its chief risk officer Ross McGee tells David Walker that the challenges remain the same, including reporting challenges under Solvency II, soft markets, and risk models.
ICS version 1.0 inspires little faith in IAIS timetable
Despite the IAIS heralding the launch of insurance capital standard version 1.0, insurers say it has achieved a lot less than originally promised. Is it time to scale back ambitions for version 2.0? Callum Tanner reports
Gen Re's Jules Constantinou: technology can make insurance more meaningful
Jules Constantinou, regional manager for life and health at GenRe UK and Ireland, and president-elect of the Institute and Faculty of Actuaries, vows to make insurance more meaningful to society. He tells Cintia Cheong how technology can help achieve that
How to prepare for SMCR
The introduction of the Senior Managers and Certification Regime (SMCR) will mean more change for UK insurers in how they ensure that senior staff are appropriately qualified and behave responsibly. Marcus Bonnell describes the main elements of the regime and outlines a plan to deal with it
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Market Insight
IFRS 17 and the challenges ahead
The new insurance contracts accounting standard brings a dramatic shift in accounting and actuarial practices, and insurers should be prepared for implementation challenges, as Kamran Foroughi explains
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Market Insight
High velocity risk management
A rapidly changing world produces rapidly emerging risks that can flummox even the most comprehensive of risk management frameworks. Neil Cantle proposes an approach to improving how insurers respond to today's threats...