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Insurance and Asset Management
Why COVID-19 makes inclusion a strategic imperative for business
COVID-19 is a threshold moment in the alignment of words with deeds. Stakeholder capitalism and sustainable finance are gathering steam - are you on board?
COVID-19
COVID-19 creates a perfect storm for the extreme weather season
The pandemic will hamper preparations for and responses to extreme weather events this year. Here's a five-step strategy to help businesses prepare.
COVID-19
How is COVID-19 affecting claims handling for hurricane damage?
COVID-19 is changing the ways in which insurance claims are handled for tropical events. Here's how the sector plans to cope in this year's hurricane season.
Insurance and Asset Management
Markets can accelerate the transition to a low-carbon economy
Getting incentives right will go a long way towards speeding up the changes needed to ensure a sustainable and brighter future.
Insurance and Asset Management
Just 1.3% of US financial assets are managed by women or minorities. Here's how to change that
A new kind of asset fund could reduce the high barriers to entry to financial investment for women and minorities.
Insurance and Asset Management
Asset owners can help drive the economic change we need. Here's how
Responsibility for climate protection falls especially on those who own or run businesses. Many firms have accepted and are acting on this - and that should give us hope.
Gender Parity
Why ignoring women is costing financial services money
Greater boardroom representation is only the beginning – catering properly to women customers could completely transform the financial sector.
Fragility, Violence and Conflict
The economics of neutral countries during World War 2
In order to maintain their independence in WWII, neutrals had to make up for their relative military weakness by offering economic concessions to the belligerents.
Financial and Monetary Systems
These measures stopped interest rates from falling even further
According to researchers, real interest rates would have fallen much further in the last half-century if governments had not expanded social insurance programs and taken on more debt.
Future of Economic Progress
Tariffs and monetary policy: A toxic mix
The escalating tariffs are having a mounting impact on global trade volumes, industrial production, capital formation and the tactic of relying exclusively on barriers to trade and protec...
Insurance and Asset Management
Does public banking work?
The global and historical experience with public banking suggests that, just as in the private sector, some public banks will achieve most of their goals most of the time, while others wi...
Global Risks
What lies ahead for Europe's languishing economy?
Coming from the role as chief of the IMF, Christine Lagarde excelled at emphasising the economic implications of gender bias and climate change. Now her challenge is to avoid a second dec...
Climate Change
Beyond ‘business as usual’. Addressing the climate change crisis
As children protest to safeguard their future, companies and governments must take concrete action
Environment and Natural Resource Security
Hurricanes, wildfires and natural disasters drive high reinsurance renewal rates
Large insurance losses from hurricanes, wildfires and other natural disasters in the past two years are set to push up reinsurance renewal rates.
Africa
Africa must become more resilient to climate risk. Here's how
Climate change means African countries are facing a double storm: an increased risk of extreme weather events and a large shortfall in insurance coverage, which means too much of the fina...