Insurance and Asset Management

California is overdue for another giant earthquake

It's been a long time since California experienced an earthquake of larger magnitude. Uniform California Earthquake Rupture Forecast estimates that there is a 93% chance of one happening ...

What the sea eagle can teach us about risk

If we do not want to give up the benefits of digitization, then cyber risks are here to stay.

Swiss Re is moving its €130 billion portfolio into ethical investments

Swiss Re is the first insurer to shift its entire investment portfolio to socially responsible companies.

Insurance could help Latin America break the link between extreme weather and extreme poverty

The protection gap for floods around the world is already large and continues to grow. How can insurance become a tool for governments to cope with climate change?

When a driverless car crashes, who do you blame?

To truly benefit from new technologies, insurers, policy-makers and producers must come together to ensure that liability and risk are properly insured.

The rejuvenation of insurance – this is why it matters

Non-specialists rarely think about insurance in their day-to-day life. Most people don’t interact much with their insurer, unless they have a claim — the industry actually has one of fewe...

Our global financial system is broken. Here’s a plan for fixing it

Policy-makers need to build a financial system that serves our economy, or we will be left with an economy that serves its financial system.

How will climate insurance work?

How have bank holding companies evolved?

How can we better insure women in emerging markets?

Does Europe need a deposit insurance scheme?

How can insurance companies better represent women?

Can index insurance protect poor farmers against climate risks?

3 industries that will be hit by Arctic change

Why your assets are safer in a sharing economy