Insurance Capital Standard Should Reflect Regional Differences, Heterogeneity of Business Models and Products

This press release highlights the the GA's report on the Pension Epidemic, proving links through to the various collateral available alongside the report.

Leading international think tank The Geneva Association has today issued a report that proposes solutions to the considerable protection gap that exists for flood losses in Asia.

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Insuring Flood Risk in Asia's High-Growth Markets

This release announces the Stakeholder engagment map which graphically illustrates the patterns of stakeholder engagement in the international framework agreements related to disaster risk reduction, climate change and sustainable development over the last five decades. It also displays the complex stakeholder landscape and multi-stakeholder initiatives in extreme events and climate risk management over the last decade and describes the major developments in expanding risk transfer and insurance.

JOINT PRESS RELEASE The Geneva Association and Nanyang Technological University, Singapore collaborate in cyber risk insurance research (Zurich/Singapore, 26 September 2016) Leading international insurance think tank The Geneva Association and Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) will jointly collaborate in cyber risk insurance research.

On the eve of the COP21 in December 2015, 68 CEOs of (re)insurance companies signed The Geneva Assocation's Climate Statement, reaffirming their commitment to support the three international frameworks adopted by the member states in 2015, namely (i) the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction (2015-2030), (ii) the 2030 Agenda for sustainable development and (iii) the Paris Agreement on Climate Change. 

Leading international think tank The Geneva Association is pleased to announce that it has entered into a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Insurance Society of China (ISC)

Under the terms of the agreement, The Geneva Association and the ISC have agreed to work together on certain insurance theoretical and practical research initiatives and share the research findings, which will promote the establishment of a platform of industry exchange, the production of studies and the integration of insurance cultures. 

Chairman of the Board of The Geneva Association and CEO of XL Group, Mike McGavick, reaffirmed the (re)insurance industry's commitment to supporting global climate resilience and disaster risk reduction measures at a High-Level Luncheon hosted by the UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon, ar the UN Paris Agreement signing ceremony in New York.

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Leading international insurance economics think tank The Geneva Association today announced that the 2014 Ernst-Meyer prize has been awarded to Maria Polyakova for her Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) doctoral thesis on "Regulation of public health insurance".

Tse-Ling Teh (Columbia University) and Maddalena Ferrana (Toulouse School of Economics) are announced as winners of this year's Ernst Meyer Prize.

Leading international insurance economics think tank has today announced the winners of its prestigious Ernst Meyer Research Prize for 2015. The winners are Tse-Ling Teh for her Columbia University PhD on Governing Uncertainties: Financial Policies for Risk and Maddalena Ferrana for her Toulouse School of Economics PhD, Three Essays on the Decision Making under Risk and Equity Concerns.