Analysis

• Social inflation comes to Europe

  07 August 2023

  The drivers are different, but the effect is similar: court judgements that have pained US insurers are spreading to Europe. Sarfraz Thind speaks to Henning Schaloske about the issue

  

• Data and AI: insurer and regulator go tête à tête

  03 August 2023

  On a panel discussion at Insurance Europe's conference, Eiopa's Petra Hielkema and Alm. Brand's Anne Mette Toftegaard debated consumer trust, data, AI and the regulation that weaves them together, as Joshua Geer reports

  

• Zurich's Colleen Zitt: a constructive approach to risk management

  01 August 2023

  Colleen Zitt has certainly had her hands full in the three years since she became Zurich North America's CRO. But the experience has advanced her ability to manage risk, she tells Sarfraz Thind

  

• Quantum computing and AI power actuarial modelling breakthroughs

  28 July 2023

  When identifying, analysing and pricing risk, non-life actuaries are finding classical approaches just don't cut it. Artificial intelligence, quantum computing and novel data sources are showing the way forward, as David Walker reports

  

• Alaska's Lori Wing-Heier: we are not ready to walk away from fossil fuels

  26 July 2023

  The director of Alaska's Division of Insurance tells Ronan McCaughey how a changing climate is affecting the state and why shutting down the oil and gas industry isn't the answer

  

• Insuring AI

  24 July 2023

  To its knowledge, Munich Re was the first insurer in the world to start insuring artificial intelligence risk. Iris Devriese speaks to Sarfraz Thind about how the business developed and the impact of Generative AI

  

• Germany faces up to climate protection gap

  20 July 2023

  Germans agree they faced climate change front-on when storm Bernd hit in 2021. Two years on, they are somewhat less united on exactly how best to respond. David Walker reports

  

• Gerhard Stahl: "We will all have to be Picassos in the future"

  18 July 2023

  Systemic risks such as climate change, pandemic and cyber are posing questions about the role of insurance. Talanx's former chief risk officer discusses how actuaries, governments and regulators should step up to the challenge, in this interview with David Walker

  

• Viral load: how actuaries used democratised data to beat Covid-19

  13 July 2023

  The flood of public data on Covid-19 became a silver lining for actuaries amid the dark clouds of the pandemic, as David Walker reports

  

• The sky's the limit for "extremely hectic" PRT market

  10 July 2023

  Pension risk transfer (PRT) experts say markets in the UK, US and the Netherlands will continue to soar - but there are factors that may help or hinder growth, as Paul Walsh reports