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This week on InsuranceERM Weekly: Chris returns from Bermuda with insights into the island's booming life reinsurance market and growing digital asset sector. David examines the insurance fallout from France's riots and the implications for European insurers. Martin explores why Europe's most heavily capitalised insurers are often among its worst performers.

This week on InsuranceERM Weekly: Martin explores private equity's growing influence over life insurance distribution and the risks for retirement savers. Ronan examines Cayman's opposition to proposed US capital charges on offshore life reinsurance. David investigates the regulatory showdown, as Athene pushes for swift action while other industry heavyweights demand more time.

In this week's InsuranceERM Weekly, Ronan discusses how Dutch pension reforms are reshaping longevity risk Anna tells us why Asia could overtake the US in life reinsurance demand. And David lets us know how Australia's natural catastrophe season is worsening the country's housing crisis Plus, a look ahead to Global Life Reinsurance New York on 5 November.

This week on InsuranceERM Weekly, Martin looks at a German court ruling that could leave D&O insurers facing more liability David investigates how Japanese insurers are using AI to make better decisions and why bear bells still beat ChatGPT in a crisis Josh asks what “simpler regulation” actually means in Europe.

This week on InsuranceERM Weekly: Anna reports back from Generali AI conference in Venice, where robots, algorithmic preference and the future of insurance were firmly on the agenda.Martin digs into why insurers are still increasing private credit allocations despite growing scrutiny from regulators and rating agenciesJosh and the team discuss AI anxiety, job cuts and the looming talent gap from the final ever Dive In festival at Lloyd’s.

This week on InsuranceERM Weekly, we go global. Chris looks at the European Commission’s proposed “climate insurance alliance” and the challenge of closing Europe’s nat cat protection gap.David heads to China, where five state-owned insurers are set to receive a combined $10.4bn capital injection, before taking us to Bondi Beach for a rather different reflection on climate risk, insurance and political division.And Josh reports from New York after InsuranceERM’s Risk and Capital Americas conference, where offshore reinsurance, geopolitics, AI and third-party risk all pointed towards one increasingly important theme: interconnectedness.

Fresh from Monte Carlo, Martin Assmann gives us the inside track from RVS 2026, from softening reinsurance rates and growing competition to alternative capital, data centres and the risks everyone was talking about behind closed doors. Plus, Ronan McCaughey looks at what Lloyd’s top executives are saying about geopolitical risk and why insurers may still be underestimating its economic impact. And entries are now open for the InsuranceERM Asia Pacific Awards 2026, with 24 categories recognising the people, teams, firms and technology shaping insurance risk and capital management across the region.

Martin Assmann is heading to Monaco for this year’s Monte Carlo Rendez-Vous de Septembre. After spending the week at pre-RVS briefings and preview events, he joins Joshua Geer to talk through the mood heading into the conference, the pressure on reinsurance pricing and terms, record levels of capital, and the key themes he’ll be watching on the ground.

As Dive In enters its 12th and final year, InsuranceERM speaks to Katherine Conway, Head of Inclusion at Aon, and Jen Denby, Global Head of Inclusion & Diversity at WTW, about how far the insurance industry has come on culture and inclusion, where progress is still lacking, and what comes next. The discussion also looks at the changing political and economic backdrop for diversity and inclusion, the responsibilities insurers have as major employers, and how AI could reshape workplace culture, trust and human connection. You can sign up to the 2026 Dive In festival, which takes place from 22–24 September, here.

This week on InsuranceERM Weekly: Martin looks at the brewing battle between Germany’s life insurers and neobrokers over a €225bn pension potAnna asks why London market firms are increasingly looking beyond the capital for talent, Joshua explores why geopolitical shocks are rarely the end of the story for insurers

This week on InsuranceERM Weekly, Martin unpacks the uncomfortable truth behind insurers’ mental health disclosure problem Chris digs into Standard Life’s new £2bn pension risk transfer partnership.And David heads to the Cayman Islands, where the jurisdiction is making its case for US Qualified Jurisdiction Status and a bigger role in global reinsurance.

This week, on InsuranceERM Weekly: Josh and Chris discuss the heat. Europe cities are sweltering, wildfires are spreading and insurers are being forced to confront what a hotter world means for everything from catastrophe models and mortality assumptions to investment portfolios. Could relatively benign insured losses be masking a much more dangerous long-term trend?Plus, Ronan gets under the hood of the UK’s funded reinsurance market as the PRA prepares to dramatically increase capital requirements.

In this special summer episode of InsuranceERM Weekly, Martin dives into the increasingly tangled relationship between life insurers, private equity, private credit, offshore reinsurance and the AI investment boom, and asks whether the industry is quietly building the foundations of what Burry calls a “budding credit apocalypse”.Then, David heads offshore to examine Apollo’s changing tune on the Cayman Islands, private markets and insurance regulationRonan gives a final update on InsuranceERM’s 2026/27 Technology Guide.

This week on Insurance Weekly: The UK actuarial profession threatens to walk away from its European counterpart, Zurich faces a Swiss regulatory crackdown over control failuresFunded reinsurance pushes deeper into continental Europe.Plus, as wildfires spread across Europe, we ask whether insurers and politicians are doing enough to prepare the public for escalating climate risks.

In this episode of InsuranceERM Weekly, Anna Sagar and Joshua Geer break down the long-awaited findings from Lloyd’s investigation into former CEO John Neal and Rebecca Clement - unpacking the governance failures, whistleblowing concerns and market reaction behind the headlines.Plus, Martin Assmann dives into Allianz UK’s new trust benchmark to reveal why British consumers still view insurance as a "necessary evil".