Market Insight

• Fostering diversity and an inclusive culture

  Insurance companies must continue to build diverse workforces and create inclusive cultures. Patricia Renzi explains how real progress can be made by aggressively changing the culture and taking a multi-faceted approach

  

• A better way to manage assets

  Adam Koursaris explains the principles behind a modern approach to portfolio management

  

• IFRS 17: Nine steps to avoiding a reporting crisis

  Insurers are facing yet another change to their reporting processes with the introduction of new accounting standards. Richard Waller shares his tips on meeting the challenge

  

• 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...

  

• 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

  

• End user computing: the hidden threat

  CIMCON Software has been providing clients with end user computing (EUC) risk management software for over 15 years. Chief executive Craig Hattabaugh explains the risks of EUCs to the insurance industry and how to tackle them.

  

• Point of view: A challenge to longevity improvement assumptions

  Matthew Edwards, head of mortality and longevity at Willis Towers Watson, delves into the reasons why mortality and longevity rates have departed from the long-term trend

  

• Bringing cutting-edge analytics to commercial lines

  Commercial carriers should be prepared: sophisticated data analytics is coming to commercial insurance and generating a host of advantages, as Dave Ovenden explains

  

• Wellington advise insurers to seek yield through municipal bonds

  European insurers are still hunting for yield and the US municipal bond market may provide an interesting and capital efficient solution. Bob Sharma and James Bradbury, EMEA Insurance Relationship Managers at Wellington Management explain

  

• Inside the Solvency II engine room

  As the EU's new regulatory regime settles in, Milliman's Oliver Gillespie observes insurers facing greater uncertainty about their actions, confusion among investors and more volatility in their balance sheets