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Hedge Fund Reinsurers: Still Taking Heat From S&P, Lawmakers
Even as new waves of hedge fund reinsurers launch, one rating agency continues to question the basic business model—a model that also has critics among U.S. lawmakers who have tried unsuccessfully ...
Nanotechnology: Understanding the Benefits and the Risks
Nanotechnology is embedded in the products or processes of nearly every major industry and has become a mainstay of product innovation and enhancement. These products will likely generate value and ...
Coverage Innovation: Why and How Ironshore Developed a Cyber Warning Endorsement
Computer Hacks. In 60 percent of cases, attackers are able to compromise an organization within minutes, according to the Verizon 2015 Data Breach Investigations Report. Data Loss.Forty-three percent ...
How U.S. Inland Flood Became a ‘Peak’ Peril
Flood is the most pervasive and frequent peril in the U.S. Yet, despite having the world's highest non-life premium volume and one of the highest insurance penetration rates, a significant protection ...
Why Asian-Americans Could Be Ideal Insurance Customers
For an industry known to flood households nationwide with blaring messages of money saving techniques, the insurance category certainly feels comfortable loosening its own purse strings. Ponying up a ...
Insurer Risk Management: Time for the KISS Approach
Just about every insurance organization on the planet has a variety of siloed systems and methodologies in place to help cope with decades of increasing regulations and other risk-related challenges. ...
Disclosure Risk for Climate Change: Insurers Making Progress
Just a few years back, the corporate governance and sustainability group known as Ceres crunched some very interesting numbers. In its "Insurer Climate Risk Disclosure Survey Report & Scorecard: ...SASB Calls for Climate Change Disclosure From Insurers
In its latest Insurance Industry Sustainability Accounting Standard, the Sustainability Accounting Standards Board (SASB) also calls for P/C company disclosures. "Catastrophe losses associated with ...