ZURICH, 4 July 2022 – On 24 June 2022, the annual meeting of the Geneva Association Economic Forum (GAEF) took place in Paris, hosted by SCOR SE. The meeting convened more than 20 members of the GAEF Network, comprised of chief economists and chief strategy officers from the world’s leading insurers and reinsurers.

Key messages from the meeting:

ZURICH, 7 June 2022 – Following The Geneva Association’s 2022 General Assembly last week, the organisation announces two key developments:

The annual award celebrates women insurance leaders whose work positively impacts society and contributes to making insurance a force for good

ZURICH, 12 MAY 2022 – The Geneva Association is pleased to announce the winner of the 2022 Geneva Association Women in Insurance Award: Anne Fortin, Executive Vice President, Direct Distribution and Chief Marketing and Communications Officer, Intact Financial Corporation (IFC).

• AIA Chief Executive & President Lee Yuan Siong becomes Vice Chairman

• Aviva CEO Amanda Blanc joins Board

The annual award celebrates women insurance leaders whose work positively impacts society and contributes to making insurance a force for good

ZURICH, 7 July 2021 – The 2021 Geneva Association Women in Insurance Award goes to Nina Arquint, Chief Risk Officer at Swiss Re Corporate Solutions, for her work and commitment to driving the reduction of coal underwriting. 

• In its new report, The Geneva Association offers a comprehensive projection of the risk landscape in the post-pandemic world, or ‘New Normal’, expounding the four most consequential shifts for insurers: accelerated digitalisation, ‘Big Government’, pivot to resilience and sustainability, and more remote working.
• The study draws on 25 interviews with experts and industry executives and on a 2021 customer survey of

2021 prize jointly awarded for two doctoral theses: one on the economics of health insurance plans and one on behavioural factors in insurance purchasing

• From Risk Transfer to Risk Prevention – How the Internet of Things is reshaping business models in insurance is a first-of-its-kind study of the paradigm shift in insurance to real-time risk prevention solutions, enabled by Internet of Things (IoT) technologies.
• Offering major benefits to both insurance retail and business customers, IoT has the potential to mitigate risks and encourage less risky behaviour.

• To support government-insurer discussions on how to close the protection gap for business interruption risk in the case of a pandemic, The Geneva Association has released Public-Private Solutions to Pandemic Risk, outlining four possible government-led schemes: 1) direct insurance, 2) reinsurance, 3) social insurance and 4) post-event protection.

• The first report in this series,