Analysis

• Insurers far from being family and diversity-friendly organisations

  04 October 2018

  Panellists at last week's Dive In festival said they were encouraged by the insurance industry's willingness to improve policies on work-life balance and diversity, but warned there is still a long way to go. Ronan McCaughey reports

  

• RMS targets efficient accumulation risk management with data schema

  02 October 2018

  Insurers have identified a need to better understand how risk accumulates across different business lines. Paul Walsh talks to RMS's Andrew Coburn to understand how the firm's new data schema will help.

  

• "Standalone cyber is the way forward" - Tokio Marine's Daljitt Barn

  27 September 2018

  Cyber risk expert Daljitt Barn has taken up a new role as global head of cyber risk at specialist insurer Tokio Marine. He explains to Paul Walsh why insurers have struggled to grasp the cyber risk threat, and what they should do to grow the market

  

• Finding the goal in insurtech - part two: the insurers

  25 September 2018

  In the second part of this series of interviews, Cintia Cheong and Paul Walsh talk to insurers about their approach to insurtech development and where they are already reaping the rewards

  

• Is the price of patent insurance too high?

  20 September 2018

  Intellectual property and patents have become a cornerstone of the global economy, but the risks associated with these assets are rarely laid off to insurers. Tim Freestone continues his series of articles on insuring intangible risk with an investigation into the pricing of patent insurance

  

• Finding the goal in insurtech - part one: the investors

  18 September 2018

  Strategies for capitalising on new insurance technologies are as varied as the technologies themselves. In part one of this series of interviews, Cintia Cheong talks to insurtech investors about the most promising areas for tech development, and how they are making their investments

  

• Modelling future profit emergence under IFRS 17

  13 September 2018

  Understanding how IFRS 17 financial statements might evolve in the future will be of vital importance to insurers and their investors. Steven Morrison describes a methodology for 'top-down' modelling of key metrics to enable fast and effective decision-making

  

• Most of Europe's non-life business "marginal or loss-making" in 2017

  11 September 2018

  Analysis by Insurance Risk Data of combined ratios reveals marine, aviation and transport is the sector with the least profitable premiums. David Walker reports

  

• Tokio Marine overhauls risk management systems

  06 September 2018

  The Japanese insurance group has upgraded its risk management processes to eliminate manual interventions and deliver an enhanced view of group risk. Christopher Cundy reports

  

• IAIS gears up for a global supervisory regime

  04 September 2018

  Since the International Association of Insurance Supervisors introduced the Insurance Capital Standard in 2016, the industry and some supervisors have pushed for fundamental changes in a number of areas. With a new consultation package, the IAIS aspires to square the circle. Aggelos Andreou reports