Britain’s Financial Services Sector Faces Long Haul to Gender Parity, Report Says March 21, 2024 By Huw Jones Britain’s banks and other financial firms are boosting the number of women in senior management roles, but unless the pace...
Climate Change Speeds Up as Major Indicators Blow Off the Charts, WMO Warns March 20, 2024 By Laura Millan All the major indicators of climate change smashed historic records last year, with some rising so steeply that the United...
Marsh: Transactional Risk Insurance ‘Remained Resilient’ in 2023 March 20, 2024 Despite a drop in the total number of global mergers and acquisitions, demand for transactional risk insurance “remained resilient” in...
Chemicals in Plastics Far More Numerous Than Previous Estimates, Report Says March 14, 2024 By Gloria Dickie At least 3,000 more chemicals are in plastics — from food packaging to toys to medical devices — than previously...
Hedge Fund That Rode Catastrophe Bond Rally Mounts Tactical Retreat March 13, 2024 By Gautam Naik A hedge fund that last year delivered its best result ever thanks to catastrophe bonds is now scaling back its...
Europe Faces 3C of Global Warming. Here’s How It Plans to Cope. March 8, 2024 By John Ainger Europe will be 3C hotter even if the world succeeds in limiting global warming to 1.5C above pre-industrial levels, bringing...
US P/C Industry Underwriting Loss Reaches 10-Year High: AM Best March 7, 2024 Industry rating agency AM Best said the U.S. property/casualty industry’s underwriting loss for 2023 reached a 10-year high of $38...
Skeptical AM Best Tags US D&O Segment With Negative Outlook March 4, 2024 By Chad Hemenway Rating agency AM Best has assigned a negative outlook to the U.S. directors and officers liability insurance segment as more...
Rising Sea Levels Increase Threat of Arsenic in Drinking Water: Study March 4, 2024 By Kendra Pierre-Louis Rising seas due to climate change could exacerbate the threat of arsenic in drinking water, according to a study published...
Last Year Was Safest Ever to Fly, With No Jetliner Fatalities March 1, 2024 By Kate Duffy Last year was the safest ever for commercial flying by a number of measures, the airline industry’s global lobby said,...