Analysis

• Phoenix's Leah Ramoutar: Why we should address nature and climate risk together

  30 May 2023

  A nature risk reporting framework to match the TCFD is being launched this year. Phoenix's head of climate and nature risk, Leah Ramoutar, tells Joshua Geer why insurers should consider climate and nature risk in tandem

  

• Moody's RMS opens the door to open-source cat modelling

  25 May 2023

  The leading catastrophe modelling firm has taken a major step in allowing its users access to third-party models, based on open-source standards, alongside its proprietary offerings. But its embrace of the open-source world is limited, as Christopher Cundy reports

  

• IFRS 17: simplifying accounting for multi-year reinsurance contracts

  22 May 2023

  There are circumstances in which the Premium Allocation Approach can be used for multi-year reinsurance contracts, as Milena Lacheta explains

  

• "Exciting and scary": the insurance regulator's view on AI

  18 May 2023

  What does the proliferation of AI technology mean for a cautious industry like insurance? And how can regulators police this potentially limitless technology? The chair of the NAIC's innovation group, Kathleen Birrane, talks about the challenge with Sarfraz Thind

  

• Inflation risk: not going away, still uncertain

  15 May 2023

  The UK might have passed its peak inflation rate, but that doesn't mean inflation is a historic risk, as Ronan McCaughey reports from the Institute and Faculty of Actuaries' Spring conference

  

• Engagement processes help insurers tie the knot on net-zero

  11 May 2023

  In order to meet their net-zero ambitions, insurers will need to bring clients and stakeholders along with them. Joshua Geer asks three heads of sustainability to explain how they are approaching engagement - and when to employ exclusions

  

• Will AI grow or shrink the insurance market?

  08 May 2023

  Artificial intelligence (AI) offers the opportunity for insurers to cover more risks at a reasonable price, but it also threatens insurability, as Esko Kivisaari discusses with Christopher Cundy

  

• AI and bank failures among top concerns for North American CROs

  04 May 2023

  The use of artificial intelligence, implications from banking collapses and people risk concerns lingering are high on the agenda of four chief risk officers, as Paul Walsh reports

  

• Climate alliances crumbled by anti-woke politics

  01 May 2023

  The unravelling of the Net-Zero Insurance Alliance owes a lot to right-wing US politics, where ESG and climate action is seen as a threat to business, as Sarfraz Thind discovers

  

• Catastrophe models lead the charge on climate risk integration

  27 April 2023

  Insurers are putting significant effort into understanding how climate affects their business - none more so than in improving their catastrophe models, as Joshua Geer reports