Analysis

• The man mixing Hollywood, insurance and the environment

  04 November 2020

  Terry Tamminen has devoted himself to campaigning for the environment and says insurers have helped. With his star-studded contacts book, he has catalysed huge progress. But there is still so much left to do, he tells Sarfraz Thind

  

• Eiopa in 2021: more staff, more responsibilities

  02 November 2020

  Europe's insurance authority is hiring nearly 35 more staff as its responsibilities grow. Executive director Fausto Parente explains what they will be doing, in conversation with Christopher Cundy

  

• ERM plays catchup on digital transformation

  29 October 2020

  Digital transformation has long been heralded as a game changer for the insurance business. However, its impact has mostly been confined to insurers' front-end processes - with risk and capital functions proving more challenging to digitalise. Ronan McCaughey explains

  

• Applying ERM expertise to limit the spread of Covid-19

  21 October 2020

  What can enterprise risk management experts offer to society in the pandemic? Quite a lot, as Dave Ingram and Dan Ingram explain, in their COVID Mitigation Monitoring Project

  

• A hot take on the UK's Solvency II call for evidence

  20 October 2020

  Christopher Cundy analyses what the British government is considering changing about its implementation of Solvency II, and what the implications might be for insurers and other stakeholders

  

• Prudential Financial's Nick Silitch: running his own version of risk

  19 October 2020

  The chief risk officer of the largest US life insurer talks to Sarfraz Thind about how he shaped his role and the risk function, and reveals the impact of the pandemic on the group

  

• Taking a new direction in life

  15 October 2020

  China Taiping Insurance Singapore, a long-established non-life insurer, has taken the rare step of diversifying into life business. David Walker talks to the man leading the move, Lance Tay

  

• How actuaries can make a difference on climate risk

  14 October 2020

  Actuaries can play important roles in helping to address the challenges of climate-related risks, according to the International Actuarial Association. Ronan McCaughey reports

  

• Cracks in the normal distribution challenge CROs

  09 October 2020

  Covid-19 is changing the way chief risk officers think and work. Eric Clapprood and David Sherwood talk to Sarfraz Thind about why CROs may need to focus on less extreme risks, and how they can adapt to the new normal

  

• Covid-19 is bad, but cyberattacks and climate change may be worse

  01 October 2020

  ...so say the world's top reinsurers when asked about the most severe risks facing the industry. Paul Walsh reports