Expert views – Page 3
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Supply chains: Dealing with the unforeseen
It is not just international health crises where preparedness plays a significant role in the severity and impact of an event
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Lessons in supply chain resilience
The COVID-crisis is the latest incident to draw attention to supply chain vulnerabilities. The lessons are clear but how quickly will they be forgotten? asks Martin Schürz.
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Sustainability: The growing issue of supply chain disruption
As a result of the predicted risk in weather events, not to mention the complex nature of supply chains, global organisations must take a broader look at their vulnerabilities
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Sustainability: The road to mandatory climate change disclosures
Pressure is mounting for organisations across all industries to better understand, report on and mitigate the impact that climate change is having on their businesses
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Sustainability: Parametrics fill the gap
As weather-related events continue to rise, risk managers may turn to parametric solutions to ensure that they have the right levels of risk transfer in place
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Sustainability: An opportunity to join forces
The COVID-crisis has accelerated many of the trends within business and society, one of the most important being a commitment to ESG goals, explains Nina Arquint, chief risk officer, Swiss Re Corporate Solutions
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How a challenging environment is impacting insurance
There are four main factors that risk managers, insurance managers and brokers must consider carefully when it comes to the impact that the current crisis will have.
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Future of insurance: Rise of parametric covers
As businesses look to protect intangible assets from interruption events such as natural catastrophes, parametric insurance products are emerging as an ideal solution to fill gaps in cover.
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Future of insurance: Non-damage business interruption
With intangible assets making up an increasing proportion of an organisation’s value and wider and more vulnerable supply chains than ever before, businesses are open to interruptions in new and more complex ways.
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Future of insurance: Protecting against secondary perils
Whilst there is not enough evidence to conclude that warming climates alone are responsible for the rising uninsured losses from secondary peril events, climate change is certainly a contributing factor.
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Future of insurance: Transfer, retain or finance?
Today, shifting market dynamics and the COVID-19 pandemic accelerates pressure on an already hardening market. Now might be the time to reconsider your risk financing options, explains Thomas Keist
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The evolution of international programmes
Demand for international insurance programmes is on the rise as businesses look to expand globally, increase efficiencies and take advantage of new insurance markets maturity
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International programmes: Lessons in contract certainty
Contract certainty is always important for businesses, but the coronavirus crisis has shone a light on just how risky it can be when things go wrong.
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International programmes: Efficiency gains through technology
The challenges faced by typical buyers of international programmes are by no means new. Technology is finally starting to solve some of these problems
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International programmes: The broker perspective
Finding the right carrier and ensuring cover correctly placed is presenting new challenges for firms and the brokers who serve them.
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Expert view: Insight at the touch of a button
The future for international programmes involves speed, transparency and the need for standardised data, argues Reto Collenberg
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Expert view: New technologies mean that risk managers can take a truly global approach
International programmes not only allow risk managers to mitigate threats more effectively, but they also reduce gaps in coverage and make claims processing more efficient, writes Bruno Mostermans, Head France, Swiss Re Corporate Solutions
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Expert view: Entering the new decade: emerging risks and evolving risks
Julien Guénot, Country leader, France at AXA XL, considers how technology and innovation can help risk managers navigate a hardening insurance market and remain resilient when faced with increasingly complex risks.
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Renewables: A transforming landscape
New technologies are revamping the renewable energy industry, enabling businesses to scale up production and achieve economies of scale. But new options, and even the better-established energies, still have some maturing to do
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Running for cover: Insuring renewable projects
As tech innovation continues in the renewable energy space and projects scale ever bigger, conventional insurance options are unable to keep up and insurers are now wondering – what’s next?