Analysis

• Climate and inflation threats spark response from technology vendors

  12 September 2022

  Risk modelling and management teams are being pushed to improve how they deal with climate and inflation risk - and software vendors are responding, as Ronan McCaughey explains

  

• RVS Monte Carlo 2022: reinsurers gather amid turbulent backdrop

  09 September 2022

  After a two-year absence, the annual Rendez-Vous de Septembre (RVS) returns to the glitzy surroundings of Monte Carlo during an eventful period for the reinsurance sector. Paul Walsh previews some key talking points

  

• Stress testing reinsurer resilience to reserve shocks

  06 September 2022

  Stuart Shipperlee discusses Litmus Analysis' examination of 35 leading reinsurance carriers to understand their overall resilience to reserve shocks, and notes very significant individual variances

  

• LDTI: beneath the headlines

  02 September 2022

  The biggest US insurance accounting change in decades is causing some startling impacts on financial metrics, but the likely effects of LDTI are not troubling many. Sarfraz Thind reports

  

• CROs find a career path in the C-suite

  31 August 2022

  Chief risk officers (CROs) have carved out an important role in insurers, but they need a different skillset to succeed in senior C-suite roles. Paul Walsh reports

  

• Claims inflation? What claims inflation?

  26 August 2022

  Rising costs of goods and labour may be squeezing underwriting results in Europe and North America, but for many insurers in Asia, claims cost inflation is a world away in every sense. David Walker reports

  

• Legal abuse and fraud, not natcats, threaten stability of US property insurers

  25 August 2022

  North American re/insurers have warned of a catastrophe that could bankrupt the insurance industry - and it's nothing to do with hurricanes or earthquakes, as Josh Geer reports

  

• MEPs' Solvency II amendments put climate and calibrations back on the table

  18 August 2022

  The European Parliament is set for an intense debate on its amendments to the Solvency II directive, which present a mixed picture in terms of their potential impact on insurers. Paul Walsh reports

  

• PRT market set for a blazing H2

  16 August 2022

  The UK's pension risk transfer market (PRT) is on course for a very busy second half of the year, after relatively modest activity in H1. Solvency II reforms are also likely to impact the sector, as Ronan McCaughey explains

  

• Fighting fires in the US

  11 August 2022

  Wildfires are raging once again and insurers are under pressure to maintain coverage in high-risk regions. But the industry can do more to help itself and society as David Sampson, president of the American Property Casualty Insurance Association, explains to Sarfraz Thind