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Nuclear war, AI and net zero: CEOs ponder what insurance will look like in 2050
30 November 2023Insurance leaders talk nuclear threats, AI's transformative power and the race to net zero as they try to predict the future of industry at the Geneva Association's summit. Joshua Geer reports
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UK bulk annuity market prepares for potentially six more providers
29 November 2023Rumours continue to swirl about firms entering the booming pension risk transfer market, while at the same time, another is considering exiting the sector. Ronan McCaughey and Christopher Cundy report
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NewRe's CRO Christian Dahmen strikes the right chord
28 November 2023The risk expert at Swiss reinsurer NewRe has an eclectic conversation with Ronan McCaughey about geopolitical risk, qualitative risk management, artificial intelligence and effective leadership
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Frustrations with EU's regulatory approach emerge at Eiopa event
24 November 2023Concerns over regulatory and supervisory issues - and with the EU itself - were prominent during the European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Authority's annual conference, as Paul Walsh reports
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Backtesting the Solvency II SCR: surprising findings and risk management implications
22 November 2023Ralf Korn and Gerhard Stahl discuss their novel investigation into the quality of Solvency II capital models and reveal a simple but powerful method for challenging model complexity
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NN Japan's CRO on his AI adventure
20 November 2023Herman Gayle has a particular passion for AI, which he has been pushing to develop since he joined the firm five years ago. Such is his enthusiasm that he even arranges his holidays with it. Sarfraz Thind reports
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Cyber risk's fundamental mischaracterisation as an insurance risk
15 November 2023Tim Freestone and Malcolm McLelland argue for a radical overhaul of how cyber risk is quantified and priced. In the first of a two-part article, they explain the classification of cyber as a market risk and propose using modern financial theory to model it
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IAIS 2023: Ariizumi and Saporta talk ICS, AI and climate
14 November 2023The International Association of Insurance Supervisors (IAIS) has seen a change at the top with Japan's Shigeru Ariizumi replacing Vicky Saporta as executive committee chair. The two gave an interview to Sarfraz Thind at the organisation's annual conference in Tokyo
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Climate and sustainability rising star of the year award: Rebecca Lea
10 November 2023Paul Walsh speaks to the ABI's senior policy adviser about her leadership on the climate agenda and the broadening scope of sustainability
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Ten geopolitical risks to keep you awake at night
09 November 2023Timothy Less from the University of Cambridge's Centre for Geopolitics outlined the shifting power balances and powder-keg disputes that actuaries should consider. Joshua Geer reports
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