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Welcome to Intelligent Insurer’s second Leaders in Parametric publication.
While advances in technology and data quality grab the headlines, industry leaders emphasise that progress, or lack of it, ultimately hangs on the humans in the equation.
Augment Risk’s CEO explains how a focus on capital, rather than conventional broking, is shaping strategy and client relationships in a changing market.
Prioritises long-term partners over cheap or new capital, says new head of outwards re.
Re/insurer to tighten portfolio control, stay flexible for the next big shift.
Long viewed as blunt tools for shifting tail risk, ILWs outgrew that label at 1 January.
Integrated teams are breaking down silos to transform client trust and coverage clarity.

Latest Risk Management Features

Webb warns that the nature of risk could change significantly within the next 5-10 years.
Intelligent Insurer’s survey shows the scale of the industry’s challenge as it races to keep pace with rising cyber exposures and increasingly systemic threats.
All encryption could become obsolete in just five years unless new risks are addressed, warns the CEO of DynaRisk.
Supply chain vulnerabilities as the ‘Achilles heel’ of modern infrastructure, can trigger cascading consequences across entire industries worldwide.

Latest ART & ILS Features

Parametric products, along with all traditional insurance offerings, will be traded entirely differently in the coming years, and the resulting landscape could surprise and excite.
Parametric cover should be considered at the start of a placement. Leaving it until last could mean missed opportunities to improve capital efficiency and risk transfer.
Three industry leaders from contrasting backgrounds outline the principal tasks ahead in order to ensure parametrics cement and augment their place in the broader risk landscape.
Senior leaders point to the need to simplify and focus the message to move the sector to the next level.
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