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Transition Center of Expertise: Mobility – Land

Presented by BlackRock

The movement of people and goods over land represents about 12% of global greenhouse gas emissions. Enabled by recent advances in battery energy storage, we believe the electrification of road transport will be central in the transition to a low-carbon economy.

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Accelerating Access to Affordable, Quality Insurance

Presented by bolttech in partnership with Leapfrog

Discover how bolttech is partnering with its strategic investor LeapFrog Investments to drive the adoption of tech-enabled insurance products in emerging markets.

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Preparing for Overseas Child Education: An in-depth Analysis of the Evolving Preference of Parents in Hong Kong and Mainland China

 A research report by HSBC Life Hong Kong (partnered with Economist Impact)

With an increasing customer demand for help with planning overseas education for children, the insights in this research report will help parents better plan for the longer-term costs of international education and put in place proper financial plans to ensure their children can benefit from the global opportunities that await them.

Global Insurance Report 2023: Closing the Personal P&C Protection gap

Presented by McKinsey & Company

Despite overall growth, personal P&C lines are losing market relevance and facing a growing protection gap, with a clear dichotomy between local winners and losers. What’s next?

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Quantifying Quantified Health: Data from Wearables Reveal Lifestyle Factors that Affect Healthcare Utilization

Presented by RGA

An RGA analysis of medical expenses indicates that lifestyle data from wearable devices can indeed help health insurers better assess risk, improve underwriting, and develop propositions that incentivize healthy lifestyles.

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Global Insurance Report 2023: Reimagining life insurance

Presented by McKinsey & Company

The global life insurance industry is facing an inflection point. A fundamental reimagination will usher in significant change.

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Feel the Burn

Presented by RGA

Post-pandemic, more workers worldwide report suffering from burnout, and it is likely the numbers will continue to rise; employers and insurers alike must look for new ways to support those on long-term sick leave in their efforts to return to work.

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Hong Kong and Singapore Insurance Industry Outlook Report 2024

Presented by Clearwater Analytics

Discover a wide array of themes that are top of mind for insurers and insurance asset managers in 2024, including greater M&A activity, regulatory developments, solvency rules, investing strategies and associated operational complexities, technology expenditure, and technology priorities. 

Flat Worldwide Life Insurance Sales: Predictable or Surprising?

IIS Executive Insights Life & Health Expert: Ronald Klein, Founder, Obtutus Advisory GmbH

Introduction

During the past few decades, the world has become a much more dangerous place in which to live. Since 1970, the annual rate of change in the number of worldwide deaths has been increasing, but still was negative through 2018 (see Figure 1 below)1 Since 2019, the rate of change began to increase. And, this is prior to the COVID pandemic which became a mortality event later in 2020. 
 

World Trade, Re-Globalisation, Cyber Risk, Countertrade and the Digital Barter Economy

IIS Executive Insights Cyber Expert: David Piesse, CRO, Cymar

Abstract

World trade faces risk of fragmentation amid a backdrop of polycrisis, combining geopolitics, ongoing wars, climate change, energy transition, post-pandemic economy (inflation and interest rates rises), and cybercrime. Unilateral trade agreements reduce world trade, create commodity vulnerability, and increase supply-chain risk.