Swiss Re’s closed-book life insurer manages more than 3m policies.
Five re/insurers go public with clear refusal to cover Carmichael coal mine in Australia
Swiss Re says disaster events claimed more than 11,000 victims in 2018
However, European reinsurers also stand to benefit from IRDAI revised regulations.
Insurers need to be mindful of the uncertainty when adjusting assumptions about mortality
Asia-Pacific firms fare slightly better; Swiss Re and Axa earn top marks
Swiss Re Institute's head of insurance risk research, Dan Ryan, tells Ronan McCaughey how insurers can turn the wealth of data they currently hold into valuable insights, and an opportunity to differentiate themselves from their competitors
Technology-enabled indexes help insurers get creative on protection for businesses
Focus on pricing and telematics to make risk modelling more accurate
Managing financial risks from climate change is becoming an important issue for insurers. Ronan McCaughey speaks to firms about the tools they use to gauge climate risk - and how they plan to deal with this major global challenge