Life insurance

Peter Murphy and Marco Radun share a technique for improving the accuracy of proxy models

Adele Groyer and John O’Brien assess the impact of the coronavirus pandemic on claims in 2020, and how this might play out

Pension schemes, insurance companies, asset managers and banks will all be forced to disclose their financial exposure to climate change by 2025 under new rules unveiled by the UK chancellor Rishi Sunak yesterday.

Nicole Gray and Madeleine Reid examine two methods for estimating the life expectancy of those with multiple impairments

The Continuous Mortality Investigation (CMI) has launched a consultation on how its next model should incorporate mortality data for 2020 following the COVID-19 outbreak.

Kira Henshaw, Corina Constantinescu and Olivier Menoukeu Pamen investigate the effects of spousal death on the surviving partner’s mortality – and how their model could be applied to disease outbreaks in closed communities such as care homes

Peter Joshi asks: what are the actuarial implications of the Human Genome Project?

Niel Daniels shares the E-cigarettes Working Party’s work on the risk profile of e-cigarette users, and how the insurance industry could respond

Insurance premiums will continue to grow in emerging economies like China this year, research by Swiss Re suggests, although advanced markets will suffer sharp contractions.

The coronavirus crisis will hit insurance premium growth three times harder than the 2008 financial crash did, forecasts by Allianz suggest.