All the headlines from our Emerging Risks Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Feb 25 2015 // In a new sigma report, the first for 2015 Swiss Re concludes that “demand and expectations for better healthcare services are rising in the emerging markets,” and that as a result it expects “premiums for...
Feb 9 2015 // New York State Department of Financial Services (DFS) today released a report on cybersecurity in the New York insurance industry and announced a series of measures that DFS will take to help strengthen cyber hacking...
Nov 26 2014 // Swiss Re’s Chief economist, Kurt Karl and his colleague, Senior Economist Roman Lechner, presented a somewhat cautious scenario for the global economy over the next two years. As detailed in Swiss Re’s...
Nov 12 2014 // Cyber attacks and terrorism are ranked among the top emerging risks concerning the (re)insurance industry in the year ahead, according to a survey released by Guy Carpenter & Co.According to the findings, new products,...
Oct 6 2014 // In the next 10 years, the clean technology market is expected to increase by more than 60 percent to nearly $400 billion worldwide, according to Clean Edge’s Clean Energy Trends 2014 Report – creating an enormous...
Sep 26 2014 // Edouard (Eddie) Schmidt is responsible for Swiss Re’s Property and Specialty Sectors around the world, which covers around a lot of ground. He explained how much, and what some of the difficulties he encounters are...
Jul 8 2014 // Swiss Re has released a report, “New emerging risk insights,” which is based on the reinsurer’s SONAR process, described as a “unique tool which uses Swiss Re’s internal risk management...
Jun 16 2014 // Australia’s QBE Insurance Group Limited has announced “a strategic change to ensure its business is positioned for profitable growth.” QBE said that after a review of its organizational structure,...
Jun 16 2014 // Medical professionals and hospitals are grappling with some of the most dramatic changes they have seen in years.Many physicians feel they can no longer succeed in private practice, and they are either moving to become...
Jun 10 2014 // Learning how to manage increasingly complex and evolving risks is essential if property/casualty insurers are to serve the needs of their customers in a changing world.According to analysts and industry executives at...
Apr 23 2014 // Sanlam Emerging Markets, a unit of South African insurance company Sanlam Ltd., said it’s buying 51 percent of Malaysia’s MCIS Zurich Insurance Berhad for about 1.25 billion rand ($118.4 million).Sanlam will...
Apr 17 2014 // Sompo Japan Insurance and Nipponkoa Insurance are already acting as one entity ahead of their merger in September. They’ve announced plans to invest “tens of billions of yen” in new areas such as energy,...
Apr 11 2014 // Aon Risk Solutions, the global risk management business of Aon plc, has unveiled its 2014 Political Risk Map, which identifies an increased risk rating for all five emerging market BRICS countries. Aon noted that “as...
Apr 8 2014 // The International Monetary Fund on Tuesday predicted the global recovery would strengthen this year as output in richer nations picked up, but it warned of rising risks in emerging economies.In its latest global economic...
Mar 11 2014 // A new report from A.M. Best concludes that “growth rates in the insurance markets of Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries remain higher than those of developed markets and have kept pace with those of some key...
Feb 24 2014 // French insurance group AXA is looking for more acquisitions in emerging markets, the company said after posting a 14 percent rise in full-year net income and lifting its dividend by 13 percent.Faced with low interest rates...
Feb 5 2014 // European banks have loaned in excess of $3 trillion to emerging markets, more than four times U.S. lenders and putting them at greater risk if financial market turmoil in countries such as Turkey, Brazil, India and South...
Jan 27 2014 // As detailed in Part I, the reinsurance industry faces the task of partially reinventing itself to expand in those sectors where it can achieve growth. Property catastrophe coverage isn’t off the table, but it’s...
Jan 23 2014 // Part I – The Market in the Developed EconomiesA significant number of reinsurance treaties were renewed this month, heavily concentrated in property catastrophe coverage. It’s become apparent, however, that this...
Jan 21 2014 // “Many Young people today face an uphill battle,” said David Cole, Swiss Re’s Group Chief Risk Officer and a member of the Group Executive Committee, speaking at the World Economic Forum Press Conference...