Analysis

• Hong Kong insurers eye Greater Bay Area opportunities

  09 January 2020

  Hong Kong fancies itself as the risk management hub of the Greater Bay Area, thanks to a young but dynamic regulator and its technological knowhow. Vincent Huck reports from the Asian Insurance Forum

  

• IFRS 17: twists and turns in the home straight

  07 January 2020

  Cintia Cheong examines stakeholders' preliminary views of the IASB's redeliberations and previews the final stages of development of the insurance contracts accounting standard

  

• Making scenario planning meaningful, effective and manageable

  31 December 2019

  An expert panel at InsuranceERM's Regulation & Risk Management conference on 3 December in London shared their advice on stress and scenario planning, an activity that has become increasingly important for risk teams as they play a greater role in business strategy

  

• Zurich's Eugenie Molyneux: diversity is key for today's CROs

  19 December 2019

  Eugenie Molyneux, chief risk officer for commercial insurance at Zurich, tells Cintia Cheong about the firm's approach to climate change and why diversity is important for the modern risk manager.

  

• Eiopa's Gabriel Bernardino: climate disclosures will become mandatory

  17 December 2019

  Gabriel Bernardino, chair of the European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Authority (Eiopa) joined InsuranceERM's Insurance Risk and Capital EMEA conference earlier this month. In a Q&A with Christopher Cundy, he answered questions about climate change, the Solvency II review and conduct risk

  

• The devil in the IFRS 17 detail of reinsurance indexation clauses

  12 December 2019

  The wording used in reinsurance contracts could lead to a bumpy transition from IFRS 4 to IFRS 17. Vasilka Bangeova explains how one contract clause - indexation - might trip re/insurers up

  

• Writing a new chapter for Equitable Life

  10 December 2019

  Feryal Nadeem started her career at Equitable Life during its financial crisis. Twenty years later she is chief risk officer at the provider that will finally resolve the UK mutual insurer for policyholders, as she explains to Ronan McCaughey

  

• Cannabis insurance: ending the bad trip

  05 December 2019

  Conflicting state and federal laws, uncertain pricing and novel risks have discouraged most insurers from participating in the cannabis market so far. But as the US edges nearer to federal legalisation, this could change. Sarfraz Thind reports

  

• Making sense of climate risk

  03 December 2019

  Climate change is a risk of unprecedented scale, complexity and urgency. Claire Booth and Peter Kingsley outline how insurers can devise strategies to respond

  

• Talanx RoE will be lower under IFRS 17 and 9, CFO warns

  27 November 2019

  Understanding the impact of IFRS 9 and 17 is a key focus for insurers currently. German insurance group Talanx has shed light on the issue by warning its return on equity will be lower under IFRS 9 and 17. Cintia Cheong explains