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Jan 14, 2025 | actuarialpost.co.uk | Paul Murray |Swiss Re

Forecasting the future can be a notoriously tricky business, for reinsurers or anyone else. Ask Robert Metcalfe, the US tech pioneer and inventor of Ethernet technology who 30 years ago predicted in a magazine column that the internet "will soon go spectacularly supernova and in 1996 will collapse." Even though Metcalfe's crystal ball was wildly off target, I still believe looking ahead with a critical, thoughtful eye has real value.

Aug 8, 2024 | cover.co.za | Swiss Re

By: Swiss reA high frequency of small to medium events resulted in global insured losses from natural catastrophes of USD 60 billion in the first half of 2024, according to Swiss Re Institute’s preliminary estimates. Severe thunderstorms, mainly in the US, accounted for 70% of global insured losses. Balz Grollimund, Head of Catastrophe Perils at Swiss Re, said: "In recent years, severe thunderstorms have emerged as a main driver of a significant increase in insured losses.

Jun 17, 2024 | covermagazine.co.uk | Tim Anderson's quick |Swiss Re

Life and health insurance carriers in Europe are facing a multitude of challenges, including rising claims costs and frequency due to factors such as post-Covid claim volumes, ageing populations, and medical inflation. In response, carriers are shifting their focus from transactions to building relationships based on trust, leveraging emerging technologies, ethical data use, and stakeholder collaboration to improve the customer experience at the moment of loss.

Jun 11, 2024 | news-journal.com | Swiss Re

, June 11, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Following the launch of Connected Underwriting Life Workbench in North America last year, Appian (Nasdaq: APPN) today announced that in partnership with Swiss Re (SWX: SREN), the solution will now be available in select countries in Asia Pacific, Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA).

May 23, 2024 | globalsecuritymag.fr | Swiss Re

Le secteur de la santé est le plus exposé aux menaces de l'IA, selon une nouvelle analyse du Swiss Re Institute Le secteur de la santé et des produits pharmaceutiques devrait être le plus durement touché par les dangers de l'intelligence artificielle (IA) au cours de la prochaine décennie, selon un nouveau rapport de l'Institut Swiss Re. L'étude examine les risques émergents liés à l'IA dans 10 secteurs au cours de la prochaine décennie, en explorant la probabilité de pertes liées à l'IA et...