January 18, 2022
The Cambridge Centre for Risk Studies (CCRS) at the University of Cambridge Judge Business School is launching a new research consortium that aims to find ways to protect society against future systemic risks. Funding will be provided by an international …
September 29, 2021
Climate change has returned to the top of the list of insurers’ biggest concerns as the vaccine roll-out and gradual lifting of health restrictions see pandemic fears ease in many countries. Global warming was ranked as the biggest risk to …
July 8, 2021
Pool Re, Britain’s leading terrorism reinsurer, announced the launch of “Re:New,” an advisory group that will explore how to protect the UK economy from systemic risks. Re:New will unite experts from insurance, government, industry, academia and beyond to explore how …
May 19, 2021
Cyber attacks, climate change, geopolitical unrest — organizations agree on what some of the emerging risks that pose threats are. But they lag in understanding just how much of a threat they can be. Despite a broad consensus across large …
December 9, 2020
There aren’t many contexts where $2 trillion seems like a paltry sum. Then a pandemic comes along. The economic fallout from COVID-19 has left insurers issuing existential warnings and businesses discovering they weren’t covered. It’s resulted in courts packed with …
September 21, 2020
Imagine a scenario where COVID-19 was manufactured in a lab and was released as an act of terror. Tracey Gibbons, senior vice present, Underwriting, at Third Point Re, considers this possibility during a presentation for Carrier Management’s new series of …
August 31, 2020
The coronavirus pandemic demonstrates in the clearest terms why central banks must take a bigger role in fighting climate change even if the issue at first appears unrelated to monetary policy, European Central Bank board member Isabel Schnabel said. Initially …
August 11, 2020
Companies risk losing more than 40% of annual profit once a decade in a world threatened by trade wars, cyber attacks, pandemics and climate change, according to McKinsey & Co., which estimates the COVID-19 crisis could top $5 trillion in …
July 27, 2020
The workers’ compensation line is unlikely to generate a profit this year and may not recover in 2021, an insurance industry economist said during a webcast Thursday. Steven N. Weisbart, senior vice president and chief economist for the Insurance Information …
May 25, 2020
We are becoming a nation of amateur actuaries, calculating the risk of restarting our lives. Can we go outside? Can we go back to work? Can we go to a restaurant or bar? Can we go to the beach? Can …