Reinsurance
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Reinsurance
View from the top: Climate-related risks and insurance
In part one of this video, Aon’s Emma Karhan discusses climate-related exposures and how the insurance industry can prepare for the next major systemic risk. In part two, AIR UK’s Shane Latchman discusses how insurers can use natural catastrophe models to quantify climate change risk.
Top three signs your reinsurance management system needs modernising today
Reinsurance administration is essential to maximising the benefits of reinsurance and ensuring confidence in the solvency of the business. This blog highlights three indicators that your reinsurance operations are struggling with inefficiencies and what an effective reinsurance operation looks like.
Up and away: How insurance can help airlines to get flying again
As the aviation sector looks to green shoots of recovery, Dzung Nguyen-Tu, Global Chief Underwriting Officer – Aviation and Space at AXA XL discusses how insurance can enable the industry to keep passengers flying.
Alternative solutions for captives in a changing marketplace
The impact of a changing insurance market, exacerbated by the global Covid-19 pandemic, means that insurance and reinsurance buyers are increasingly exploring alternative solutions. Produced by AXA XL, this article explains how these solutions can work for captive owners.
Resolving reinsurance operations challenges with modernisation
Reinsurance has become an essential tool for carriers looking to grow their businesses while protecting their balance sheets against unforeseen events, but like any tool, it must be managed properly. This webinar focuses on how to resolve reinsurance operations challenges with modernisation.
Insuring the intangible
Managing and mitigating the risks associated with intangible assets is complicated by the fact that they, by definition, are indistinct. This article looks at the advantages of captives over traditional risk transfer solutions covering IP, data, brand and other intangible assets.
Analysing flood events to build back better
Floods remain highly destructive and are expected to become even more frequent and intense. AXA XL has partnered with the Cambridge Centre for Risk Studies to examine over 100 catastrophes. This article sheds light on the research project and the role played by re/insurance solutions.
Is the US prepared to deal with the aftermath of increasingly severe storms?
This article sheds light on the findings from two recently published case studies on Hurricane Katrina and Superstorm Sandy, which quantified the recovery issues faced and how disaster recovery efforts can be improved after severe storms occur in the future.
Special report: Why closing the protection gap is critical to the industry's future
This special report examines one of the biggest challenges facing the insurance industry, and, more broadly, the world - the great divide between economic losses and insured losses, commonly called the protection gap. The report discusses this growing problem and what be done to address the issue.
Insuring against disasters - Florida's forgotten risk
When the last significant hurricane hit Florida, damage to pool screen enclosures accounted for 25% - 40% of the insurance losses. In this article, Wade Stier, Vice President and Underwriter of U.S. Property Treaty Reinsurance at XL Catlin, looks at this significant risk for insurers and reinsurers.