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Blog • Frans Kuys FIA

Navigating sustainability: Understanding double materiality in insurance

The concept of double materiality in corporate sustainability reporting has been discussed and debated for several years as sustainability, ESG and climate related disclosure requirements were being developed by many standard-setting bodies.

ESG Europese Unie Insurance Sustainability Blog
Kennisbank • Vincent de Quelerij, Sander van Eekelen, Juliska Tel MSc

Modelling the Financial Impact of Flood Risk

This article describes how to model the financial impact of flood risk for specific Dutch portfolios,which is insufficiently covered by the commonly used global flood models as these models often ignore specific flood risk characteristics within the Netherlands.

Modelleren Magazine De Actuaris Data Algoritmes Insurance Finance
Kennisbank • George Burton

Managing Green Swans

Most financial service companies have pledged their commitment to achieving a net zero carbon footprint by 2050 with a significant stepping-stone in this being interim targets typically set for 2030.

Ethiek Magazine De Actuaris Politiek Insurance Sustainability
Kennisbank • Giammaria Famiglietti, Daniel Teetz MSc

Nature positive insurance

Indeed, neither climate change nor loss of nature will be solved in isolation, as they reinforce each other and are strictly intertwined.

Risk Management Klimaat Magazine De Actuaris Risico Insurance
Kennisbank • Eamonn Phelan FSAI CERA

Operational resilience – how actuaries can play their part

There has been much international focus in recent times on the operational resilience of insurance and reinsurance firms.

ERM Insurance Reinsurance Blog Finance
Kennisbank • Mark Snijder, Nino Sieling

High inflation rates for insurers

In the past few months, consumer price inflation has been increasing significantly. This is observed in Europe (including the Netherlands), and the United States. An increase of the inflation levels can have immense impacts on insurance companies as expenses and...

Magazine De Actuaris Inflatie Insurance
Kennisbank • Charles Whitmore

Managing Systemic Risk in the (Re)insurance Market

Systemic risk can broadly be defined as the risk of collapse of an entire financial system or entire market. Furthermore, when orientated within the (re)insurance market, systemic risk can be described as a risk that has the contagious ability...

Risk Management Complexiteit Magazine De Actuaris Insurance
Kennisbank • Mike Aarts, Shaleb Mathur

Recommendation on actuarial interest rate for personal injury claims

The article discusses the impact of the actuarial interest rate, “Rekenrente” on bodily Injury claims. The actuarial interest rate is not regulated in a mandatory way in the Netherlands. In 2017 De Letselschade Raad (DLR, Counsil of Bodily Injury) published a concept guideline.

Magazine De Actuaris Rente Insurance Actuaries
Kennisbank • Willem van Dommelen, Gijs van Oostrom MSc CAIA FRM, Sam Taylor

Evaluating fixed income portfolio performance: a conundrum for insurers

Insurance companies, one of the biggest classes of institutional investors, maintain a business model that makes a unique set of demands on their asset managers. The “buy-and-maintain” investment style accompanied by balance-sheet driven restrictions does not lend itself…

Complexiteit Magazine De Actuaris Insurance Investments