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Most companies were utterly unprepared for the onset of a pandemic as disruptive as COVID-19, with a number of risk managers admitting it was not on their radars. But once they have navigated their companies through the immediate future and business starts to return to normal, they know that will have to change. Captives could be part of the solution. Solomon Teague reports. 24 March 2020
Actuarial & underwriting
AM Best is developing a stress test to apply to its rated insurance companies' balance sheets to gauge the impact of the COVID-19 virus fallout on their businesses. 19 March 2020
Actuarial & underwriting
Risk managers and CFOs need a plan when approaching the commercial insurance market that will set them apart from the crowd of insurance buyers, says Ryan Ralston from Elevate Risk Solutions. 16 March 2020
Actuarial & underwriting
Captive Alternatives is anticipating a rise in emerging and non-traditional risks, such as cyber, reputational, supply chain and employee benefits, which it sees as among the key drivers for growth this year. 10 March 2020
Actuarial & underwriting
Strategic Risk Solutions has named Kirk Cyrus as head of its Barbados operations. 9 March 2020
Actuarial & underwriting
Parametric insurance is the solution to the re/insurance industry’s problem with intangible assets, according to Marcus Schmalbach, the chief executive officer of RYSKEX. 9 March 2020
Actuarial & underwriting
Martin Eveleigh, chairman of Atlas Insurance Management, is delighted at having secured the sale of his business to Risk Strategies, a deal that completed on March 4, he told Captive International. 6 March 2020
Actuarial & underwriting
Captives have traditionally used reinsurance as a way to shift risk off their balance sheets, but there are numerous other advantages to tapping the reinsurance market. Reinsurers are developing sophisticated and often bespoke tools to help captives to manage their own unique sets of exposures, says Desmond Bohan of BMS Re US. 4 March 2020
Actuarial & underwriting
With continued reports of double-digit rate increases for some coverages, companies are looking to analytics to leverage their position with insurers and create new strategies for dealing with a hardening market, say Sigma’s Lori Ussery and Michelle Bradley. 10 February 2020
Actuarial & underwriting
Cannasure Insurance Services, an insurance MGA and wholesale broker for the cannabis and hemp industries, has hired Summer Jenkins as senior product development manager. 24 January 2020
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