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US insurers in Covid-19 coverage crisis
24 March 2020Insurers 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
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Insurers weather the coronavirus storm - but for how long?
20 March 2020The 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
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Chinese non-life insurers develop products for ailing local business
19 March 2020As the Covid-19 pandemic puts the world on path to recession, innovative property and casualty insurers in China are designing products to help SMEs and exporters alike. David Walker reports
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IFRS 17 in the UAE: the real issue is lack of expertise
18 March 2020Oscar Kitasoboka, chief actuary at the UAE Insurance Authority, talks to Cintia Cheong about the IFRS 17 challenges facing the country's insurers in comparison to other regions
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Is PAA the IFRS 17 shortcut insurers have been looking for?
11 March 2020Complying with the IFRS 17 insurance contracts accounting standard is hard work, especially for firms writing long-term contracts. Pamela Hellig discusses the potential for the premium allocation approach to relieve the pressure
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Modelling the virus
10 March 2020The spread of Covid-19 has not come as a surprise to everyone. Analytics firms are looking at the thousands of situations to model pandemics every day. However, it seems insurers are not quite up to scratch. Sarfraz Thind reports
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Three lines of defence: a necessity or a nuisance?
06 March 2020The three lines of defence model has become a fixture for enterprise risk management in the insurance sector. But after nearly two decades since its introduction, does the model still have a place within the insurance industry or are changes needed? Paul Walsh investigates
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UK actuaries take another crack at equity-release mortgage valuation
03 March 2020Valuation of equity-release mortgages (ERMs) is one of the most controversial topics in the UK actuarial community, and the latest update from the working party only makes a small step towards resolving the debate. Christopher Cundy reports
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Chubb's Barney Wanstall: creating the 'end-to-end' IFRS 17 solution
27 February 2020One of the biggest challenges for insurers implementing the IFRS 17 accounting standard is creating a seamless and robust system that takes in all the relevant information and produces the required numbers, as Chubb's head of IFRS 17 implementation in 25 countries explains to Cintia Cheong
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AAIC's ERM journey: inspired by Europe
25 February 2020AAIC's CRO Lorie Graham started the company's ERM programme in 2008 at a time when the US reinsurance sector had few models to look at. So she took her inspiration from the Europeans, she tells Sarfraz Thind
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