Analysis

• The future of flood risk management

  26 October 2022

  How can insurers better manage flood risk and improve the services they offer customers and clients? Experts offer their thoughts in this report on the InsuranceERM / ICEYE webinar

  

• Dive In 2022: creating braver cultures that embrace differences

  20 October 2022

  Axis Capital's chief people officer and Dive In festival spokesperson Noreen McMullan talks to Paul Walsh about the impact of this year's festival and the need for quotas to improve diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI)

  

• Gilts crash: a boon out of a crisis for insurers

  18 October 2022

  Another day, another UK financial market crash. But while it has gone wrong for British politics and pension funds, the current crisis may actually benefit insurers in the long run. Ronan McCaughey and Sarfraz Thind report

  

• The path to sustainable cyber insurance

  14 October 2022

  The cyber insurance market is growing rapidly, but demand exceeds current capacity and insurers may lose relevance unless they redefine the risk and improve their modelling. Joshua Geer reports

  

• Ledger Investing aims to crack the casualty ILS code

  12 October 2022

  Led by ex-AIG chief risk officers, Ledger Investing is entering the relative unknown in connecting insurance-linked securities (ILS) investors with casualty risks. Paul Walsh reports

  

• Ripples of interest rate risk hit UK annuity writers

  07 October 2022

  Equity-release mortgages have been a popular asset class for annuity writers, but soaring interest rates, fears of a property crash and regulatory uncertainty are creating questions for the market, as Christopher Cundy reports

  

• Plenty of runway left for life consolidation in Europe

  04 October 2022

  The business of consolidating life insurance portfolios is looking healthy, according to participants, as inflation provides a catalyst and supervisors become more familiar with transactions. Joshua Geer reports

  

• The UK gilts crisis: a worry, not a disaster, for insurers

  30 September 2022

  Plunging sterling and soaring gilt yields are buffeting insurers, but longer-term impacts of the government's disastrous "mini budget" are the real concerns, as Sarfraz Thind reports

  

• RVS 2022: emerging risks are fattening the tail

  26 September 2022

  The interconnectedness of emerging risks threatens to exacerbate extreme losses for reinsurers. Paul Walsh reflects on the discussions at the Rendez-Vous de Septembre (RVS) in Monte Carlo

  

• US Senators grill regulators over private equity ownership and climate

  21 September 2022

  This month's US Senate Banking Committee hearing on insurance shone a light on where politicians have the biggest concerns about the sector. Sarfraz Thind reports