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Aurore Lecanon: the CRO of the year driving risk management change
02 March 2021Chief risk officer of the year in InsuranceERM's 2021 awards, Aurore Lecanon, tells Ronan McCaughey how and why she successfully modernised Prudential International Assurance's risk function. She also discusses Brexit's impact
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Asian life insurers boost Covid-19 immunisation programmes by taking on vaccine risk
17 February 2021Fidelidade follows Singaporean firms providing insurance for vaccine side-effects
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Is address-level pricing causing or solving natcat protection gaps?
11 February 2021Consumers in high-risk districts are facing unaffordable premiums for property cover - a situation that some blame on insurers' increasingly detailed pricing methods. But insurers argue that address-level pricing allows them to close protection gaps. David Walker reports
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Australian association to investigate affordability and availability problems
09 February 2021Insurance Council of Australia seeking solutions to decade-long issues
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Insurance protection gaps: getting over the blame game
09 February 2021Politicians and civil society tend to blame insurers for widening protection gaps. But insurers say governments and regulators must share responsibility. So what can be done to solve what all regard as a growing problem? Christopher Cundy reports from Eiopa's 10th anniversary conference
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Local authorities in Australia call for national natcat reinsurance programme
04 February 2021Recent report warned of unaffordability and unavailability of cover north of Tropic of Capricorn
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US insurers must respond to "new trajectory" in country's climate policies
29 January 2021Speakers at Insurance Information Institute forum urge engagement with pro-climate administration
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Fix annual cohorts, then we'll support IFRS 17 endorsement, say European insurers
25 January 2021Insurance Europe and CFO Forum say other issues do not block endorsement
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Avoid prescriptive supervision of climate change risk, say European insurers
14 January 2021Insurance Europe responds to IAIS's consultation
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IFoA president-elect: actuaries must keep the world insurable
14 January 2021Louise Pryor says actuaries and insurers must deal with the urgent risk of climate change