Association News
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Join us to celebrate European Risk Management Awards Week on 7-11 December
The annual European Risk Management Awards, taking place in partnership with Ferma and Commercial Risk Europe, have recognised best practice,…
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Castelli urges Italian risk managers to keep calm and manage risk
Italian risk managers need to keep calm, not panic and act rationally as they face up to a hard market…
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Italian companies look to captives as hardening intensifies
With the hardening commercial and corporate insurance market well underway in Italy and Europe, now is the time for risk…
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Anra backs call for state-backed Italian insurance solution
Italy’s risk and insurance management association Anra is ready to work with its national insurance association Ania to call on…
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AMRAE pushing for captives and risk management incentives in France
AMRAE is pushing ahead with plans to convince its government to facilitate the creation of captives in France and put…
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IAIS calls for patience on global regs as risk associations urged to step in
Manuela Zweimueller, head of supervisory practices at the International Association of Insurance Supervisors (IAIS), has told multinational insurance buyers not…
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Need for greater resilience is key theme for Asia-Pacific risk managers
The Pan Asia Risk & Insurance Management Association (Parima) attracted a record number of delegates to its Resilience Week, which…
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Risk managers should not fund insurers’ inefficiencies, warns Baron
Franck Baron, chairman of Parima, used his closing remarks at the association’s Resilience Week to warn insurers that they cannot…
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Parima members warned to dig in for long hard market
Risk and insurance managers in the Asia-Pacific region and worldwide need to steel themselves for a prolonged hard market, take…
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Broker and insurer consolidations to continue, say Buberl and Glaser
Risk managers worldwide can expect continued consolidation in the commercial and corporate insurance sector, as the market remains remarkably fragmented…
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Governments need risk managers and should give tax breaks for self-insurance: Baron
The Covid-19 pandemic has underlined how governments around the Asia-Pacific region and worldwide need to adopt proper, long-term risk management…
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Buberl calls for focus on public-private partnership for systemic risk
Thomas Buberl, CEO of AXA Group, used the closing CEO debate during Parima’s Resilience Week today to call again for…
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Don Forgeron elected president of GFIA
The Global Federation of Insurance Associations (GFIA) has elected Don Forgeron as its new president, following a vote at its…
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Time for wholesale change to risk management approach, suggests South African Professor
Almost all risk managers believe the Covid-19 pandemic will increase the focus on operational resilience, but there is also a…
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President Ramaphosa receives South African Risk Influencer of the Year award
South African President Cyril Ramaphosa, as chair of the National Command Council established under the Disaster Management Act, has been…
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Ferma announces that past president Jo Willaert has died
Colleagues have paid tribute to Ferma’s immediate past president Jo Willaert, who sadly died last week. Mr Willaert was president…
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This is the time for action
This issue of Commercial Risk Asia is wholly based on a series of in-depth interviews carried out with leading members…
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Risk managers need to focus on financial stress, health and safety, and planning
Financial sustainability, health and safety of customers and staff members, job security of staff, and business plans and projections, are…
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Natividad urges risk managers to take the driving seat in new age of risk management
The shock caused by the sudden arrival of the Covid-19 pandemic has highlighted the need for companies to carry out…
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Focus on the long term and wellbeing of staff to build resilience: Wu
The relative lack of preparedness for the arrival of the Covid-19 pandemic across the world can be attributed to the…