Why I came back to Swiss Re
Three months after rejoining Swiss Re, some reflections on four years in a small company, what they taught me, and why an institution I already trusted was the right place to use it.
Writing on Insurance & risk
Learning by experience in a world of AI
If AI takes over routine underwriting, the answer is not to preserve a hand-underwriting quota: it is to route exceptions to humans and make replay the training ground.
The trouble with training talent
Firms never paid for junior training: it was a free byproduct of low-value work that AI has now taken, and no individual firm has an incentive to restart funding the talent pipeline.
Why the Standard Life model could go European
Anyone watching the UK bulk annuity market has been turning over the Standard Life carve-out for the past few weeks (I know, this is a mass appeal article).
Five thoughts on life insurance liabilities being taken private
The migration of long-duration life insurance liabilities from listed insurers into private capital structures is one of the largest reallocations of financial capital underway in the developed world.