Geoeconomic Fragmentation: Strategic & Operational Impacts on the Insurance Sector
Geoeconomic fragmentation makes managing global risks like climate, cyber, and pandemic risks more difficult for insurance and reinsurance sectors
ESG
Environmental, social, and governance (ESG) investing refers to a set of standards for a company’s behavior used by socially conscious investors to screen potential investments.
Environmental criteria consider how a company safeguards the environment, including corporate policies addressing climate change, for example. Social criteria examine how it manages relationships with employees, suppliers, customers, and the communities where it operates.
Environmental & Climate Risk: Leading Concern for Insurers in 2025
Economic instability continues to push sustainability lower on the corporate agenda. In the current economic environment executives are focusing on the ESG risks
EU Public-Private Reinsurance Scheme for Climate-Related Losses
EU insurance markets could gain if recent proposals for a bloc-wide public-private reinsurance scheme for climate-related losses move forward
EIOPA’s Fossil Fuel Proposals Pose Minimal Impact on European Insurers’ Ratings
European insurers’ ratings will remain unaffected by the proposed capital surcharges on fossil fuel-related assets, according to EIOPA
Climate Change Resilience in Global P&C Insurance: Profitability & Underwriting
Primary insurers have varying levels of exposure to climate risk, with the property and casualty insurance markets in the US and Japan identified as the most sensitive
El Niño & La Niña. Direct Impact for Insurance Industry
Insurance alone cannot help protect the region from disruption caused by severe weather events brought by El Niño and La Niña
Forum for Insurance Transition to Net Zero Scales Up Climate Action by Insurers
Forum for Insurance Transition to Net Zero (FIT), a new UN-led and convened structured dialogue and multistakeholder forum
Impact of Climate Change on Health & Life Insurance Industries
In the insurance industry, understanding of the risks related to climate change is mostly concentrated in P&C business lines as well as investments
ESG Related-Risks for Directors & Officers. Survey 2024
ESG continues to be a high ranking risk factor to directors and officers. What are the different risk rankings across regions and what elements of the “E”, the “S” or the “G”
NatCat Insured & Economic Losses Increases Due to Climate Change
Climate change will have a larger impact on economic losses in the future, according to Swiss Re Institute. A new analysis of 36 countries ranks
Insurance Can Minimize the Renewable Energy Transition Risks
The insurance sector should engage with the developers of a fast-developing new technology that may be crucial to the renewable energy transition
Insurance Industry Transition to a Net-Zero Emissions Economy
The transition to a net-zero emissions economy is the economic revolution of our times and insurance must once again rise to the challenge
How Can Insurers Adapt New Directions to Achieve Net Zero?
Insurers are under pressure to adapt to new frameworks for reaching net zero — but regulators are pushing at an open door
Prediction for Energy Infrastructure & Insurance Development
IMCA predict over $800bn will be allocated to new developments and re/insurance cover by 2030, but major challenges must be tackled if this expenditure is to succeed
3 Ways How Re/Insurers Can Accelerate Net Zero & Decarbonization
The emerging impacts of climate change are increasingly felt across the re/insurance industry, with much uncertainty ahead. But the industry now has a chance to transform
Innovative Insurance Solutions for Blue Economy & Sustainability
Insurance aims to protect against insurable perils. The blue economy globally is worth an estimated USD 2.5 trillion annually
Re/Insurers’ Survey about ESG Strategy & Climate Risk Modelling
Moody’s survey was to determine the current level of climate integration into their risk management and reporting processes while learning about insurers’ plans in this area
Cyber Risks, Climate Change & ESG – Main Challenges for Insurance Industry
Climate change, ESG responsibilities and cyber risks are just some of the key concerns facing the insurance industry in 2024, according to Reynolds Porter Chamberlain
4 Key Benchmarks for Insurers to Implement ESG Investment Strategy
FCA review into ESG benchmarks and noted that these benchmarks are poor, and do not provide sufficient information for users to understand the purpose
Climate-Related Risks in the Insurance Sector
Climate change is an overarching global threat and a source of financial risk in the Insurance Sector, according to recent report, the United Nations
Insurance CEO’s Priorities to Drive Insurer Growth — Digital Technology, Talent & ESG
With swirling changes across the industry, KPMG surveyed 134 insurance CEOs, to gather their insights and perspectives on the industry and economic landscapes over the next 3 years
How Insurance Companies Are Preparing for a Net-Zero Future?
The insurance industry has had to rethink its business strategies to prepare for more ambitious decarbonization initiatives across sectors
How Insurers are Contributing to Social Sustainability? Role of Insurance in ESG
The ESG movement has grown from a corporate social responsibility initiative launched by the UN into a global phenomenon that is reshaping the asset management
Most Significant Insurers Steps to Build ESG Infrastructure
Many insurers around the world have taken significant steps to build an organizational infrastructure addressing the multitude of challenges posed by ESG
Cyber Security & Insurance Increasing Through the ESG Lens
Cyber security has long been seen as an IT issue but today’s booming digital economy means this is no longer the case
In 2025, U.S. individual life insurance new annualized premium reached $3.94 bn. Total U.S. pension risk transfer new premium reached $7.1 bn
The insurance industry faces several ongoing challenges linked to long-term economic, social, and environmental trends. These structural risks require active management to ensure protection
AM Best maintains a stable outlook for the UK life insurance market, supported by strong pension-related activity, steady expansion in defined contribution (DC) pensions
Directors and officers face rising legal and regulatory risks from AI adoption, cyber threats, and evolving privacy laws across the Asia Pacific region