Analysis

• UK regulators respond to parliament's Covid-19 insurance questions

  16 April 2020

  The possibility of a pandemic risk pool, alleged unfair treatment to customers and the current solvency situation of insurers were among the topics that MPs posed to the UK's top regulators in a grilling at the Treasury Committee. Paul Walsh reports

  

• Covid-19: the biggest operational risk event of our times

  16 April 2020

  As economies shut down and industries struggle with a new work paradigm, insurers are changing their structures to cope with the manifold challenges of the pandemic. Gustavo Ortega, head of technology, innovation and operations risk management at Voya Financial, talks to Sarfraz Thind about one of the biggest operational risk events in history

  

• Generali Switzerland's three-phase approach to coping with Covid-19

  13 April 2020

  Giselle Lim, chief risk officer at Generali Switzerland, describes how the insurer is responding to the operational, capital markets and communication challenges posed by the coronavirus pandemic

  

• Choosing KPIs for IFRS 17

  09 April 2020

  IFRS 17 is bringing a fundamental change in the accounting of re/insurance contracts for more than a thousand insurance entities around the world. Milena Lacheta and Wijdan Yousuf explain what analysts, rating agencies and auditors are thinking about measuring performance under the new standard

  

• Cat modelling awakens to climate change risk

  07 April 2020

  Responsibility for understanding the implications of climate change for insurers has largely fallen on the shoulders of the catastrophe modelling community. They are responding with a more dynamic and multi-faceted view, as Paul Walsh reports

  

• Actuarial recruitment: a pause for the pandemic

  02 April 2020

  Cintia Cheong reports on the how the actuarial job market in the UK is faring amid the coronavirus pandemic, the IR35 tax changes and the implementation of IFRS 17

  

• What Solvency II reports need to say about the coronavirus

  31 March 2020

  European supervisors have relaxed the Solvency II reporting deadlines, but in return insurers have been asked to include analysis of the Covid-19 impacts on their business. David Walker reports on what those discussions might entail

  

• HKFI's Selina Lau: Covid-19 is a golden opportunity to educate the public

  26 March 2020

  Selina Lau's first month as chief executive of the Hong Kong Federation of Insurers has been nothing if not busy. From the coronavirus to the opportunities of the Greater Bay Area initiative, while handling IFRS 17 and forthcoming risk-based capital rules, there is never a dull moment, she tells David Walker

  

• US insurers in Covid-19 coverage crisis

  24 March 2020

  Insurers are being asked critical questions about their role in protecting consumers from the coronavirus pandemic. Despite calls from on high, the industry says it will not cover business-interruption and workers compensation losses. As the crisis deepens, industry bodies say such demands could threaten the stability of the sector. Sarfraz Thind reports

  

• Insurers weather the coronavirus storm - but for how long?

  20 March 2020

  The Covid-19 pandemic has provided an uncompromising test of insurers' operational and balance sheet resilience. Initial reports suggest they are handling the situation, but what are the risks in the longer term? Paul Walsh investigates