(Re)thinking insurance

In this episode, Vittorio Magatti is joined by Gero Niessen who explores how agents today decide on pricing and discounts, the potential pitfalls of this approach, and how both insurers and agents can benefit when agents are provided with the right information in the right way.

Michael McPhail is joined by Jeff Van Kley and Nancy Serio, who explore key trends and challenges that are impacting commercial lines insurers, as well as how companies are preparing for the future.

In this episode: Michael McPhail is joined by Day Bishop and George Zarkadakis, who discuss how the pandemic has accelerated the shift to new ways of working, how insurers are leveraging technology to derive value and mitigate future uncertainty and how companies are redesigning critical roles to achieve positive business outcomes.

Vittorio Magatti is joined by Lewis Maddock to talk about some of the greatest challenges facing reserving teams today, to explore why historically there has been so little innovation, and discuss the meaning and impact of machine learning in the context of reserving.

Sina Thieme is joined by Tammy Richardson to explore what it means to be a modern leader in the insurance world, including consideration of the impact of sustainability, ESG and inclusion.

Carrie Kelley is joined by Yingzhen Chuang, Adhiraj Maitra and guest speaker Tim Antonelli, who discuss the contents of a recently published white paper: 'The journey to net zero: an insurer's guide to navigating climate risks and opportunities'. The paper, a collaboration between Willis Towers Watson and Wellington Management, is intended to be a pragmatic guide for (re)insurers as they steer the...

Vittorio Magatti is joined by Rosa Salas and Simon Kazmierowski, who discuss the key findings from Willis Towers Watson's 2021 global IFRS 17 survey, examine how these findings vary around the world, and explore what the wider business implications are for insurers.

Vittorio Magatti is joined by Teresa Murphy and Andreas Schröder who will discuss why, with just 18 months to go until the effective date for IFRS 17, so many life insurers are still some way from having all their people, processes and technology chosen, trained and embedded; and what they should and can do in the time remaining?

Carrie Kelley is joined by Alastair Black and Kim Steiner, who explore key findings and trends from Willis Towers Watson's EMEA Life Predictive Analytics Survey and shed light on how these results compare to the U.S. market.

Vittorio Magatti is joined by Kunj Behari Maheshwari to discuss construction of discount rates under IFRS 17 for imperfect markets with limited to no market data or with market data that is otherwise unreliable.

Carrie Kelley is joined by Matthew Edwards and Richard Marshall, who explore recent trends in setting mortality assumptions and discuss how insurers are attempting to understand the impact of socioeconomic status on mortality.

Vittorio Magatti is joined by Tom Helm and guest speakers Grace Hanson and Sascha Firle for a discussion on how analytics is going to transform claims outcomes over the next three to five years.

In this episode, Jarrett is joined by Jeff Carlson and Yi Jing, who discuss how Willis Towers Watson monitors U.S. pricing trends via the Commercial Lines Insurance Pricing Survey. They explore how pricing has changed since the survey launched in 2005 and share observations on what's driving it.

In this episode, Vittorio Magatti is joined by Tasha Pettet and Bijal Patel, who will explore how you 'break the silos' between underwriting, pricing, and portfolio managers, bringing these different experts in commercial lines operations together, to leverage each other's capabilities to improve overall business performance.

In this episode: Jarrett Cabell is joined by Dave Ovenden and Tasha Pettet, who will discuss how commercial lines insurers can improve underwriting performance by digitally enabling the underwriting process and embracing analytics.

In this episode: Carrie Kelley is joined by Magdalena Ramada to explore InsurTech for life insurance, current industry trends and ways that traditional insurance companies can integrate new innovations.

Jarrett Cabell is joined by Jamie Mackay, who will explore how reserving teams can use automation to improve processes. Jamie discusses what they should automate and how to get started and identifies some challenges to overcome.

Carrie Kelley is joined by Nick Komissarov, who will explore M&A market trends and what impact COVID-19 has had on deals. Nick will also discuss how the low interest rate environment is impacting transactions and what companies should do if they're considering M&A.

Sina Thieme is joined by Dr Simon Young to discuss what parametric insurance is, how it works alongside traditional indemnity insurance, and how it may evolve and grow in the commercial and personal lines space.

Carrie Kelley is joined by Karen Grote, who will discuss the pension risk transfer market - what it is, current activity levels and why deals are on the rise.

Simon Bleach is joined by Magdalena Ramada and Duncan Anderson, who discuss the latest trends, developments and evolutions in technology; consider the impacts of this on insurers; and identify what some of the new opportunities arising for the industry are.

Carrie Kelley is joined by Alastair Black and Matthew Edwards, who will discuss the challenges that companies face when pricing and issuing products during the pandemic as well as the increased interest in protection products.

Sina Thieme is joined by Stefanie Schriek and André Gerling who will be discussing emerging risks: what they are; the role insurance plays; how the risk management function should deal with getting to know the unknown; managing liabilities; and dealing with an accumulation of extreme risks.

Jarrett Cabell is joined by Joe Milicia and Tom Beasley who explore how insurers are deploying automation to meet rapidly increasing future business needs, reduce errors, simplify processes and drive down costs. They also discuss some key lessons learnt from their experience of running large scale automation and transformation projects.

Vittorio is joined by Richard Marshall and Kez Baskerville-Muscutt to explore the liability-side impact of climate change, focusing on the effects on UK life insurers.