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How the Environment Will Change for Life Insurers - And Ways to Cope

By Jules Constantinou |February 21, 2017|English

The life insurance business might be seen as a steadfast boulder awash in a fast-flowing stream of change, yet the Greek philosopher Socrates taught us that the secret of change is to focus energy on building the new and not fighting the old. Indeed,...
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Trends in Life Insurance - How Can the Industry Stay Fit for the Future?

By Peter Temple |January 09, 2017|English

Life insurers are facing a new world in which the nature of uncertainty itself is changing. The future is collapsing into the present faster than past data can be used to extrapolate the future. However, we shouldn’t be fearful. InsurTech (insurance...
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Preventing Soft Fraud - Insights From Behavioural Science

By Markus Burbach |December 12, 2016|English | Deutsch

Lying and cheating are neither motivated by a criminal disposition nor do they follow the cost-benefit principles of the Simple Model of Rational Crime, according to Behavioural Economics and Psychology Professor Dan Ariely. People cheat just a little...
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Human vs. Machine – Which One Is Changing Insurance?

By Guizhou Hu|November 15, 2016|English

According to Ingenin’s 2015 Insurance Innovation Survey, 65% of insurance executives believe new technology will disrupt the insurance industry over the next five years. Among the many disruptors making the scene, it appears predictive analytics...
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High Time Medical Marijuana Was Taken Seriously

By Ross Campbell |October 20, 2016|English

Marijuana is associated with hallucinogenic effects and an altered state of consciousness. The dried leaves and flowers of cannabis sativa have also long been understood to have medicinal properties. Marijuana was first used in nineteenth century European...
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The Future of Insurance - Why Life Insurers Must Adapt

By Ross Campbell |October 13, 2016|English

The insurance industry is not the only business to struggle with understanding its data. But the sheer volume of information hitting insurers’ desktops on a daily basis means it cannot ignore the importance of acting now to embrace the latest...
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