Allianz and Swiss Re back flood insurance and resilience project in Ghana
The Ghana Ministry of Finance, the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), the German Government, and the Insurance Development Forum (IDF), have launched a project to develop flood insurance and financial resilience in Ghana.
Sustainable farming: insurers can help to solve a major challenge
It’s a major challenge: How can farmers produce more food to feed a growing population and cut greenhouse gas emissions and preserve biodiversity at the same time? Sustainable farming is the solution. Frank Terhorst, EVP Strategy & Sustainability of the Crop Science Division at Bayer AG, explains which three key technologies and developments are central to the transition to sustainable farming, and describes the crucial role insurers can play to protect farmers, investors and produce buyers.
Learn more: https://www.swissre.com/institute/research/sonar/sonar2022/sustainable-farming.html
What is the future for underwriting? Insurance experts discuss
We’ll be closer to our customers but does our workforce have the right skills?” Digital transformation has (finally!) arrived for insurance, shifting the industry focus from covering risks to preventing them. This panel discussion, from the Swiss Re Institute conference Shaping modern underwriting, https://www.swissre.com/institute/conferences/shaping-modern-underwriting.html looks at the impact of technology on the current state of the industry, setting the scene for future digital developments. Find out more about the next generation of underwriting at the Swiss Re Institute https://www.swissre.com/institute/research/topics-and-risk-dialogues/risk-dialogue-underwriting
The welcome is by Simon Welton, Market Head P &C UK & Ireland, Swiss Re UK
Panel moderated by Victoria Fritz, Conference Chairwoman, News presenter, BBC World News
Luca Marighetti, Group Head Tech Transformation, Swiss Re Group
Jacqueline McNamee, Founder and CEO, C-Quence Insurance Solutions Limited
Hayley Robinson, Chief Underwriting Officer, Zurich Insurance plc
Eric Schuh, Global Head P &C Solutions, Swiss Re Group
Oasis Conference in Collaboration with the Swiss Re Institute – Zurich, 28th September 2022
Hybrid Event, Ruschlikon (Swiss Re Centre for Global Dialogue), Switzerland
* Welcome Remarks.
– Beat Aeberhardt (Head of Cat Perils R &D, Swiss Re)
– Dickie Whitaker (CEO, OasisLMF) (04:00)
* Oasis at Scale.
– Ben Hayes (CTO, Oasis LMF) (16:00)
* Collaboration to Enable Choice – (Re)Insurance industry and GEM in development of the new GEM China EQ Model (36:45)
– John Schneider (Secretary General, GEM Foundation)
– Michale Ewald (Earthquake Perils Lead, Swiss Re)
– Ole Hanekop (Senior Actuarial Analyst, Hannover Re)
* The Corporate risk manager and buyer are evolving – how do we support them? Big Ticket’s digital infrastructure takes Oasis out of the (re)insurers back office and adds value across the whole value chain, including the corporate. (01:01:00)
– Lee Worth (Head of Group Insurance, Specsavers)
– Rob Bartlett (Co-Founder and CEO, Big Ticket Platform)
* Swiss Re Comments:
– Martin Bertogg (Head of Cat Perils, Cyber and Geo, Swiss Re) (1:36:45)
* Unmodelled Losses: The Challenges for Cat Modelling (01:50:00)
– Erich Fischer (Senior Scientist and Lecturer, ETH Zurich)
– Thiery Corti (Climate Change Lead, Swiss Re)
– Panel Discussion (Moderated by Judith Cerda Belmonte, Head of Nat Cat Competence Centre (UNIQA). This sessions explores the challenge in unmodelloed elements of most cat models and how specialists see them, and how users make adjustments (2:21:40)
– Erich Fischer (Senior Scientist and Lecturer, ETH Zurich)
– Thiery Corti (Climate Change Lead, Swiss Re)
– Iwan Stalder (Head of Group Accumulation Management, Zurich)
– Tom Philp (CEO, Maximum Information)
* Building targeted uncertainty into Oasis-deployed cat models, and its potential value to cat risk decision-making (03:00:55)
– Tom Philp (CEO, Maximum Information)
* Closing Remarks (3:30:15)
– Beat Aeberhardt (Head of Cat perils R &D, Swiss Re)
– Dickie Whitaker (CEO, OasisLMF)
UBS CEO Ermotti Discusses Inflows, Credit Suisse
UBS Chief Executive Officer Sergio Ermotti discusses the Swiss lender’s financial results, its takeover of Credit Suisse Group AG, and his strategy. UBS attracted $28 billion from wealthy clients in the months running up to the takeover. Ermotti speaks with Bloomberg’s Manus Cranny in Zurich.
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