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  • RVS 2024: Reinsurers arrive strong, but an uncertain world could test their limits

    06 September 2024

    The annual Rendez-Vous de Septembre (RVS) event begins this weekend in Monte Carlo and reinsurers sail in with robust financials - but there are uncertain waters on the horizon. Joshua Geer reports

  • Europe's climate resilience hinges on insurance and public-private cooperation

    03 September 2024

    The European Commission's Climate Resilience Dialogue has put insurance, and its greater cooperation with public authorities, at the heart of proposals to improve the bloc's resilience to climate change. Joshua Geer reports

  • LGRA's CEO talks up the three trillion PRT opportunity

    26 August 2024

    George Palms has built Legal and General Retirement America's US PRT business from scratch. But he sees much more opportunity for growth, he tells Sarfraz Thind

  • Canadian market faces a transitional period

    22 August 2024

    The Canadian insurance market is currently shifting from a hard to a soft market and faces emerging challenges, Houssam Yehya, head of international at GBN Risk Solutions, a managing general agent (MGA) in Canada, speaks to Joshua Geer

  • What world leaders need to know about the insurance sector

    19 August 2024

    Major protection gaps are opening up in natural catastrophes, pensions, cyber and health. Closing them is possible, but only if the appropriate regulations are in place, argues Susan K. Neely

  • Inflation as a major climate-related risk

    15 August 2024

    It's becoming clear that climate change will influence the rate of inflation, but how can insurers model the potential impacts? Consultants at Milliman explain how a causal modelling approach can help

  • Re/insurers consider a different outcome from cancer

    08 August 2024

    Once a probable death knell, a cancer diagnosis is increasingly becoming a chronic disease, thanks to advances in testing and treatment. This has significant implications for life and health re/insurers, as David Walker reports

  • NAIC's asset-intensive reinsurance proposals fuel agony and ecstasy

    02 August 2024

    Soon-to-be-unveiled US rules could have a dramatic impact on the business of asset-intensive reinsurance and have drawn a surge of conflicting opinions from consumers, insurers and regulatory advisors. Sarfraz Thind reports

  • Admiral Group CRO drives charge on electric vehicles

    31 July 2024

    Ronan McCaughey why the UK-headquartered insurer sees opportunities in electric vehicles, its sustainability strategy and why third-party risk is so important

  • Cyber insurers showcase the opportunity from continuous underwriting

    25 July 2024

    Continuous underwriting has enabled cyber insurers to better understand their liabilities and improve profitability - and it's an approach the rest of the market could copy, as Paul Walsh reports