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Athene: Risk management will separate life reinsurance winners

Douglas Niemann, executive vice president and chief risk officer of Athene, the US retirement services group that focuses on delivering guaranteed income to institutions and individuals, shares his market outlook and why risk management is crucial

Why Insurance Risk Suite - Prophet AI Stands Out

Neil Covington, Vice President, Product Management, Insurance Risk at FIS, explains why Insurance Risk Suite - Prophet's artificial intelligence (AI) approach is aimed at insurance-specific needs, and how Prophet embeds AI inside the insurance risk platform

Learn from the Decision Focus community at the Focus 26 conference

Jeff Robinson, a partner at governance, risk management and compliance (GRC) software provider Decision Focus, explains why the principle of human interaction will be at the heart of the provider's Focus 26 conference.

The evolving investment playbook of global life reinsurers

Gareth Haslip, Global Head of Insurance Strategy & Analytics at J.P. Morgan Asset Management, gives Ronan McCaughey a broad overview of life reinsurers' investment strategies across the UK, Europe, Bermuda and the Cayman Islands

Benefit from Psicle's disruptive next-generation pricing capabilities

Hannes van Rensburg, co-founder and CTO of Dynamo Analytics, tells Ronan McCaughey about Psicle's evolving functionality, leveraging machine learning and artificial intelligence, and what this means for pricing actuaries and their counterparts

Crowe UK: Practical solutions for a changing insurance market

Crowe UK's head of consulting, Justin Elks, its head of sustainability, Alex Hindson, and the firm's director of risk and governance, Isaac Alfon, explain how they work closely with their insurance clients to deliver tailored solutions

Navigating the rising tide of SRCC risk

Sam Haynes, Vice President of Data and Analytics at Verisk, outlines how insurers are adapting their approach to strikes, riots, and civil commotion (SRCC), and political violence, as the frequency of riots increases and conflict zones expand

Climate metrics are becoming mission-critical for insurers

Terry Narine, a climate actuary and the CEO of ACTUWIT Consulting, a 2025 InsuranceERM award winner, explains why climate metrics matter more than ever for insurers, areas to track and how ACTUWIT can support insurers in this space

IFRS 17 Essentials

Transition: MRA or FVA for recent new business?

Kurt Lambrechts discusses how insurers can use the modified retrospective approach (MRA) or a fair value approach (FVA) to help simplify their IFRS 17 implementation

Exploring the impacts of IFRS Sustainability Disclosure Standards on Insurers

Insurers are facing new requirements for sustainability-related disclosure that will prompt a review of their reporting processes and systems, as Barbara Jaworek explains

IFRS 17: Preparing for a more streamlined tomorrow, today

Matthieu Soulas and John Bowers reveal the main sticking points with IFRS 17 implementation and discuss strategies for a smooth completion
11 January 2021

A challenging year for insurers

IFRS 17 has been a significant hurdle facing the Insurance industry for almost four years now. However, 2020 saw the added challenges of a global pandemic, a faltering global economy and political uncertainty which added additional complications to an already challenged industry.
11 January 2021

IFRS 17 - The RNA Way

IFRS 17 is not just about day-to-day reporting; it also requires insurers to be proactive and have forward-looking systems in place that are fit for large volumes of calculations. This can represent a challenge for certain IT infrastructures, which are at risk of buckling under the computational pressure.

11 January 2021

Unpacking LRC and LIC Calculations for P&C Insurers

The new IFRS 17 insurance contracts accounting standard has created the need for a revised set of measurement, accounting, and reporting functionalities for insurers.
08 January 2020

Technology Perspectives from the IFRS 17 Journey

As the implementation deadline for IFRS 17 in 2022 draws ever nearer, the insurance industry is in the midst of preparing for the standard. However companies are at various stages of preparedness from having already started implementation to just preparing the gap analysis or selecting technology vendors.
08 January 2020

The march to IFRS 17 compliance

While it feels like IFRS 17 has been a part of the insurance conversation for quite some time, it was just over 18 months ago that FWD Group ("FWD") became one of the world's first insurers to select a technology solution to address the new standard. Since then, the insurance industry, vendor community, and the standard itself have evolved quite a bit.

Frontrunners

Optimising model capabilities

Moody's Analytics explains how its software and services can help insurers with their solvency monitoring, reporting and stress-testing requirements in Solvency II

Arming insurers for Solvency II and beyond

The pressures that Solvency II puts on risk and capital modelling are manifest: more information is required within shrinking deadlines, it has to be communicated better and it must be produced with more rigorous governance. FIS explains how its Prophet solution is helping actuaries and risk professionals deliver

A holistic approach

A multi-disciplinary approach is the key to good data management, says MBE, whose unique and innovative business structure has helped clients prepare for the stringent requirements of the Solvency II regime and beyond

Time to move forwards

Milliman's Neil Cantle explains how insurers have responded to Solvency II and how they can leverage their new skills to prosper in a fast-moving world