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Betting On Founders: How VCs Spot InsurTech Unicorns of 2025
Carrier vs. MGA. U.S. vs EU. Specialty niche vs. traditional insurance lines. There are many things that distinguish one InsurTech from the next, including financial metrics like internal rates of ...
Lloyd’s Takes Step to End Insurance and Investments in Coal
The Lloyd's market is moving to end its insurance of coal and oil sands businesses while at the same time ceasing investments in such carbon-producing assets by Jan. 1, 2022. As part of its plan to ...
Climate Change Poses Much Greater Existential Risk for the World Than COVID-19
Similar to the COVID-19 pandemic, climate change ultimately will be managed by "bending the curve" of temperature rises and greenhouse gas emissions, according to Rowan Douglas, Head of Climate and ...
New Capital Unlikely to Immediately Soften Rates: Vantage Risk CEO
Greg Hendrick, the CEO and co-founder of the new reinsurance and insurance company Vantage Risk isn't too concerned about the new capital that has been pouring into the market this year, and its ...
With Tech Tools Galore, It’s an Exciting Time for InsurTech McKenzie Intelligence
Advanced technological tools are making it an exciting time to be an InsurTech – and an exciting time for those insurers and reinsurers that want to more accurately assess the risks on their books, ...
The Digital Normal and the Future of Work in Reinsurance
It's been said that necessity is the mother of invention. That proverb was illustrated perfectly during the insurance industry's successful scramble to conduct its business digitally at the onset of ...
COVID-19 Crisis Renews Attention on Systemic (Uninsurable) Risks
Reinsurers and insurers for years have been worried about systemic risks – those uninsurable risks with the potential of surpassing the capital of the industry. The COVID-19 crisis has renewed ...
More Class of 2020 Reinsurers Unlikely
The Class of 2020 already has a new member, but it's not a true startup, the chair of the company said recently. Speaking at the KBW Insurance Conference in early September, Sid Sankaran, chair of ...