InsuranceERM Americas Awards 2026

The actuarial modelling solution of the year award went to WTW and its RiskAgility Financial Modeler, for which the judges singled out the company's support for the full life cycle and the product's inbuilt AI-Assistant, the latter of which increased productivity by 30%.

After winning the awards for best use of cloud technology and reserving solution of the year, LCP is highly commended in the actuarial modelling solution of the year category.

Milliman Integrate picked up the award for ALM solution of the year, an honour the firm also won in 2024.

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Alongside winning the awards for best use of cloud technology and reserving solution of the year, LCP was highly commended in the analytics solution of the year category.

Pacific Life Re has been named Bermuda-based reinsurer of the year at the InsuranceERM Americas awards 2026 after a year in which the company combined global expansion, product innovation and disciplined execution across its business lines.

FIS highlighted that one of its major developments in the year came in the platform's use of AI to reduce operational and compliance risk.

In a hot field and a rapidly expanding and maturing sector, CyberCube has been highly commended in the 2026 InsuranceERM Americas awards for the best use of AI in risk management.

The judges were struck this year by LCP's InsurSight actuarial reserving platform, awarding it the best use of cloud technology award.

Aon's Impact Forecasting has evolved traditional catastrophe modelling for reinsurance by encompassing underwriting, new product development, and automated accumulation control to help insurers make strategic decisions.

After winning this award in 2024, Aon has again won climate risk initiative of the year for Impact Forecasting, its catastrophe model development division, which has also picked up the prize for Catastrophe risk modelling solution of the year.

For Yibo Hu, chief risk officer (CRO) of Gibraltar Re and Lotus Re, the Bermuda-based life reinsurance subsidiaries of Prudential Financial, risk management is not a control function operating on the sidelines of the business. It is a strategic capability that enables growth, informs decision-making and helps organisations navigate an increasingly complex world.

The judges were particularly impressed by the provision of specific, named client examples and highly credible, quantified efficiency metrics, such as the reduction in reporting timelines.

The last twelve months have seen Conning add numerous improvements to its GEMS Economic Scenario Generator software, including a new model for credit default swaps, enhancements to the calibration tools, and improved performance under the risk neutral measure.

It was Mercer's ability to work across a breadth of clients that helped it win insurance asset manager of the year.

Athene won the prestigious insurer of the year category in this year's Americas awards due to the way risk management is "deeply embedded in the culture of the organisation".

The winner of insurtech innovation of the year is Pibit.AI, which looks to overhaul commercial underwriting for carriers and managing general agents (MGAs). The firm is in production with 40 US carriers and MGAs.

The long-duration targeted improvements (LDTI) standard represents one of the most complex accounting transformations insurers have faced in decades.

In its work over the last year, Decision Focus has offered a platform combining GRC capabilities and modules into one central hub, allowing insurance clients in the Americas to meet regulatory requirements, ensure compliance, and manage operational risk via an integrated assurance GRC philosophy.

A highly complex US pension risk transfer (PRT) that was completed under an exceptionally compressed timeframe and known as 'Project Bolt' has brought Nationwide the pension risk transfer (PRT) deal of the year award.

The inaugural pricing solution of the year award goes to Milliman for its AccuRate concept, which combines vehicle telematics data with reported accidents to quantify risk within commercial vehicle fleets.

After winning the awards for regulatory reporting software of the year and actuarial modelling solution of the year, WTW was highly commended in the pricing solution of the year category for its RiskAgility Financial Modeler platform.

The winner of the regulatory reporting software of the year award goes to WTW for its RiskAgility Financial Modeler, which has also won the award for actuarial modelling solution of the year.

RGA has been named reinsurer of the year at InsuranceERM's Americas Awards 2026, recognising a year in which the life reinsurer combined scale, execution and client-focused innovation across the US, Canada and Latin America.

LCP's InsurSight wins the award for reserving solution of the year, with the actuarial consultancy doing six major releases in the last twelve months, alongside a successful launch in Canada following its US debut the previous year.

Insurance portfolios have outgrown the systems built to analyse them, with allocations shifting from treasury ladders and investment-grade corporates into structured products, private credit and instruments with embedded optionality.

Beneva has won InsuranceERM's prestigious Americas risk team of the year in recognition of its work to build a more mature and integrated risk function, following one of the largest insurance mergers in Canada.

2025 saw Conning's GEMS Economic Scenario Generator selected by the National Association of Insurance Commissioners as the platform on which the Generator of Economic Scenarios (GOES) are built.

Emerging litigation risk has become one of the most urgent challenges facing casualty re/insurers. The sector increasingly needs to understand not just where litigation exists, but how it connects to insureds, portfolios, and underwriting decisions.

Ankit Agrawal has been awarded young risk professional of the year at IInsuranceERM's Americas Awards 2026, recognising his work to make catastrophe risk clearer, more comparable and more actionable across a nationwide property portfolio.

Zack Axelrod, chief actuary at American National, has won the InsuranceERM young actuarial professional of the year award, recognising his role in strengthening the insurer's actuarial, risk and capital management capabilities while supporting expansion into new markets.

Many people say they fall into the actuarial profession. However, Devyn McNicoll who was highly commended in the young actuarial professional of the year category says she felt like the profession chose her, similar to the renowned "cat distribution system" where a cat chooses their human.