Our Perspective

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  Don't Forget Your Free Underwriting Tool - The World Wide Web

  By Joe Curtin |December 11, 2018|English

  With advancing technology and evolving underwriting tools, it may be easy to overlook what has now become an “old standard”, the World Wide Web. Underwriters routinely use numerous screening tools to help assess whether applicants meet the...

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  Digital Dialogues Episode 2: The Mecosystem - Customers in the Driving Seat [Podcast]

  By Ross Campbell |December 06, 2018|English

  Last week we launched Digital Dialogues, our new podcast series presenting insights gleaned from more than 100 conversations with industry leaders, consultants, innovators, futurists, digital specialists and academics on the future of insurance. The...

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  Claim Insights through Text Mining – A Cost Effective Approach

  By Vamsi Krishna Sabbisetty and Upendra Belhe |December 05, 2018|English

  In today’s challenging economy, insurance CEOs and managers face the difficult task of controlling costs and allocating resources and capital effectively, all in the face of disruption and competition. Data-driven insights are a competitive force,...

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  Prevention Not Cure - Putting Digital Health to Work

  By Ross Campbell |December 04, 2018|English

  The UK spends £97 billion treating diseases but just £8 billion preventing them. This imbalance is set to change according to government proposals. Under a social prevention model, health advice would be tailored to an individual based on...

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  What’s the Future for Insurance? Hear What Experts Really Think in Our New Digital Dialogues Series [Podcast]

  By Ross Campbell |November 29, 2018|English

  Disruption, information revolution, robo advice - something big and transformative is happening in our industry, something that is changing the way insurers do business, forever. We keep hearing how new technologies could cause insurers to be disintermediated...

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  Medical Underwriting and the Mother of Invention

  By Ross Campbell |November 27, 2018|English

  It’s easy to forget that Life insurance was an invention. Writing in 1866, the actuary Cornelius Walford described the workings of the Amicable Friendly Society that had opened for business 150 years earlier: “The plan was this: the number...

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