Geneva Association Ernst Meyer Prize 2019 Recognizes Academic Contributions to Key Issues Facing Insurance Industry

The 2019 Geneva Association Ernst Meyer Prize has been granted to Christian Kubitza of Goethe University (Frankfurt) for his thesis, Essays on Financial Stability and Insurance Markets, and to Alexis Louass of Ecole Polytechnique (Paris) for his thesis, Insurability of Catastrophic Risks.

Press release: Insurers take decisive step in climate risk modelling through cross-sectoral mobilisation

Developing and scaling up the integration of the next generation of risk models requires cross-sectoral collaboration, and the insurance industry plays a critical role as risk managers and investors. This was a key takeaway of The Geneva Association's 2019 Climate Change Forum held 11–12 July in London, sponsored by Tokio Marine Holdings.

Financial protection against extreme events not a single sector problem; it's an all-of-society problem | CBC interview

Maryam Golnaraghi, Director Climate Change and Emerging Environmental Topics, recently spoke with Sarah Lawrynuik of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) about insurance responses to extreme weather events:

Insurers can leverage behavioral economics to address the protection gap

Applying behavioral economics can help reduce the enormous barrier to people buying insurance – their cognitive biases – that causes the protection gap.

This interview accompanies the research report Underinsurance in Mature Economies: Reasons and remedies. It was conducted on the sidelines of the 46th Annual General Assembly in Buenos Aires.

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