On D-Day, 6 June 1944, Allied forces launched a combined naval, air and land assault on Nazi-occupied France. The 'D' in D-Day stands simply for 'day' and the term was used to describe the first day of any large military operation. Posted on Thursday Jun 6
Hymans Robertson has appointed Mike Johnson to join its Birmingham office as a Partner in DB Investment. He will focus on growing the office’s Defined Benefit (DB) investment team to enable it to meet the increased demand for Hymans’ investment consultancy services both locally and across the UK. Posted on Thursday Jun 4
As analysts, you require faster runtimes and more efficient ways to build and expand risk and capital models. As management turns to modelled insights to make informed decisions, notably during the Covid-10 pandemic, this has resulted in more regular updates to reflect evolving business strategies. Posted on Wednesday May 20
Shifting demographic, rising customer expectations, and higher costs from catastrophic events are all increasing the pressure on claims organizations. Carriers need to be more agile and efficient than ever with fewer resources at their disposal. How do you operate with agility and unprecedented efficiency without breaking the bank? Posted on Thursday Mar 5
Define your IT innovation strategy or risk becoming irrelevant, according to insurance leaders. Almost daily, a new disruptive technology is developed with far-reaching effects on the industry. There is no turning back. AI, Blockchain, Machine Learning and IoT become more commonplace every day. By 2025, according to current estimates, there will be more than 50 billion IOT devices; the number is expected to grow to one trillion by 2030. Posted on Tuesday Mar 3
The acceleration of technology has created unlimited potential. It is clear that blockchain, AI, ML and other innovative technologies are the only tools to achieve growth, efficient and seamless operations, and remain relevant. The Insurance AI and Innovative Tech USA 2020 (May 12-13, Chicago) is where data and analytics experts and innovation and tech executives are meeting to unlock the tools and strategies to empower technology led insurance. Posted on Thursday Dec 19
It is more important than ever for carriers to meet business objectives and customer satisfaction at scale. How companies react to competition, rising customer expectations and operational efficiency requirements will decide their future. Posted on Monday Dec 16
If insurance carriers want to stay competitive and gain business efficiency, then innovation is a ‘must’ today, rather than a ‘nice to have’. However – do you have the strategies to implement emerging technologies across your organization? Insurance Nexus will speak with AXA, State Auto and Hippo to uncover how technology can transform an insurance carrier into a fast, service-driven organization. Posted on Thursday Nov 28
77% of insurance carriers will invest in automation in the next few years to achieve seamless claims. The incredible potential to leverage technology stretches across the claims landscape, from chatbots to AI, FNOL to payment. Posted on Monday Nov 25
On our front cover this month is not one of our nominees for our Actuarial Awards but you can view all of our wonderful finalists in this edition and with voting now open please go to www.apawards.co.uk and cast your vote! Posted on Wednesday Oct 9
As the children reluctantly drag themselves back to school with no doubt some parents cheers ringing in their ears, when for the older children their first point of call will no doubt be discussing the word proroguing as the Queen has approved the PM’s suspension plan. We once again wait with bated breath on the latest developments but you have to say it isn’t dull in the political arena at present.
The USA’s Premier Gathering - Defining the Future of Insurance. Since the year 2000, 50 percent of the Fortune 500 companies have disappeared as they failed to stay relevant and competitive in the digital economy. The time’s up for siloed thinking and siloed structures. Outdated products and clunky service are no longer acceptable. Posted on Tuesday Aug 20
This month we have Willis Towers Watson examining Automation, AI and other technologies and how it is changing the insurance industry as we know it. Following on from that SAS determine how using AI and machine learning is working towards the fight against insurance fraud. Posted on Friday May 10
As Easter approaches we still wait to see what, if anything, will happen with Brexit, however, our lead story is, therefore, extremely topical as Nausicaa Delfas, Executive Director of International at the FCA asks How can general insurance firms prepare for Brexit? Elsewhere we also have Mark Williams, Principal & London Retirement Practice Leader, from Buck examines Avoiding the pitfalls of GMP equalisation and Graham Elliott the CEO from Azur looks at Augmented Underwriting: The future of Insurance is coming. Posted on Thursday Apr 4
Zurich, Allianz and AXA to join Europe's Leading Insurers at Connected Insurance Europe 2019. The game has changed. Products that meet customer needs are necessary to remain relevant. Posted on Tuesday Apr 2
Our cover story examines the changing landscape of claims management from the BDMA perspective. We also have Stephen Wilcox, CRO from the Pension Protection Fund, exploring the DB Pension Scheme Universe. We also have a feature from the CEO of Azur on the insurance industry and its digitization.
Welcome to the first of our 2018 Awards special edition of the magazine, celebrating the winners of our Stars of the Future Awards, sponsored by Star Actuarial Futures. It is with a great deal of pleasure that we congratulate our worthy winner Amit Lad from Barnett Waddingham in an extremely close finish just pipping Ali Humphrey from Hymans Robertson and James Tomlin from Cardano.
Welcome to the October edition of Actuarial Post, we are delighted to announce that voting is now open for the Actuarial Post Awards 2018. You can find all of this years’ finalists on pages 28-35, with direct links to their voting forms or you can look at them all directly on www.apawards.co.uk. The winners will be announced and featured in our December edition, published on December 7th. Posted on Thursday Oct 11
Our main feature looks at Blockchain as key to the future for the insurance industry from Adrian Clarke the CEO at Evident Proof. We also have a feature from Ben Potts at Novidea discussing the role technology can play in helping insurers integrate businesses. Elsewhere our regular columnist from PwC Kareline Daguer has asked her colleague, David Otudeko, to write a piece as he's has completed some work that she thinks you will find interesting. Alternatively, boring, boring pensions is the title from Dale Critchley at Aviva, whatever can he mean? Posted on Friday Sep 14
The heat wave continues and talking about the weather is what our main cover story from Kareline Daguer from PwC tackles from an industry standpoint. Other areas covered in a busy holiday edition of the magazine is a statement of intent by the DWP as examined by Chris Parlour from XPS Pension Group Posted on Wednesday Aug 8
In this month’s magazine we have a number of features including Louise Evans from The Pensions Regulator looking at the evolution of DB funding in a single metric and Sanjiv Gossain from Cognizant examines three ways for insurance companies to stay relevant and Sofie Qidenus the founder of omni:us reviews AI. Posted on Friday Jul 6
In this month’s magazine we feature Paul Dix, Vice President, Insurance at CGI UK, writing about ‘Defining the new ‘composite’ insurer’ and Hannah Goldsmith gives us Five Rules to Retiring Earlier. Posted on Tuesday Jun 5