As part of the GIRO 2025 mini-series, we speak to Martin Assmann from Insurance ERM about current hot topics across the insurance market. https://www.insuranceerm.com/news-comment/insuranceerm-launches-its-weekly-podcast-episode-one-out-now.html

As part of the GIRO 2025 mini-series, we speak to Geraldine Finucane and Hazel Davis from the working party on Professionalism, Regulation and Ethics for Actuaries in Data Science. We discuss what effective governance can look like in practice and how to assess whether your firm’s approach supports meaningful oversight.

As part of the GIRO 2025 mini-series, we speak to George Wright about getting the right tools and support for modern actuarial modelling.

As part of the GIRO 2025 mini-series, we speak to Debashish Dey. We discuss his latest research combining two hot topics, climate change and AI and also touch upon his career journey.

As part of the GIRO 2025 mini-series, we get an update from Cian Creedon and Marcus Schofield on the latest from the Claims Inflation Working Party. We discuss; the results from their inflation survey and how expectations for future inflation will vary by line business going forward.

As part of the GIRO 2025 mini-series, we speak to Richard Stock and Tom Saliba from the Flood Working Party on how best to engage with government and other stakeholders to promote early development of a more robust and appropriately funded solution to UK flood risk.

As part of the GIRO 2025 mini-series, we speak to Isabelle Williams and Richard Holloway from LCP about how pricing and capital teams can work together to stay ahead of the curve on emerging risks.

As part of the GIRO 2025 mini-series, we speak to Paul Sweeting about his career, goals for his presidency and the future of the actuarial profession.

As part of the GIRO 2025 mini-series, we speak to Karol Gawlowski and Patricia Wang, IFoA Actuarial Data Science Working Party. We discuss their latest research on Interpretable Boosted GLM, which won them the Brian Hey Prize for 2025.

As part of the GIRO 2025 mini-series, we speak to Catrin Townsend about Price Writers, Catrin’a book “A Risky Business” and how we need smarter governance for smarter pricing models. https://www.amazon.co.uk/Risky-Business-Actuarys-Quantifying-Managing/dp/3031116720 https://open.spotify.com/show/4TDqKgBZSIwMqzUJM6H2ke?si=85c7c96d792d4e6c&nd=1&dlsi=25d649a0d9c446c2

As part of the GIRO 2025 mini-series, we speak to Chris Jones, Doug Woodley and Yousif Al-Ani about the latest on Autonomous Vehicles (AVs). We cover: when will we see AVs on UK streets, how will insurance work and who are the key players in development of AVs? https://www.abi.org.uk/products-and-issues/topics-and-issues/driverless-cars/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/chris-jones-051875174/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/doug-woodley-480437a3/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/yousifalani/

As part of the GIRO 2025 mini-series, we speak to Amit Parmar about electric vehicles. We discuss the research Amit and Conor Woods have done on whether electric vehicles crash more or less than petrol cars. https://resolve.cambridge.org/core/journals/british-actuarial-journal/article/examination-of-factors-influencing-accident-frequency-and-severity-of-electric-vehicles-evs-vs-internal-combustion-engine-vehicles-icev/D8267B87F78CF300385BA7A139B39AD0

As part of the GIRO 2025 mini-series, we speak to James Orr and Oliver Bettis from the IFoA Climate Sensitivity Working Party to discuss there latest research on climate sensitivity, which looks at why we should we care and what can we do if it’s more than we thought?

As part of the GIRO 2025 mini-series, we speak to Gwen Chan on: “more data or more model? - a framework for achieving predictive analytics objectives in specialty insurance”. Gwen’s and Priyank’s research is looking to measure the predictiveness of different datasets.

As part of the GIRO 2025 mini-series, we speak to Cat Drummond and Tom Durkin about their presentations on Capital modelling and validation market review: Industry trends and best practices.

This week we talk to Lara Palmer and Jade Lagrue from LCP about their new research on modelling reserve risk. We discuss: • Limitations of current reserve risk modelling. • What analysis have you considered as part of the research • What are the possible applications and next steps for the research

This week we talk to Gerry Quirk, Partner at Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner, about Part VII transfers. We discuss: • How do Part VII transfers work and who are the key stakeholders? • What are the different motivations for firms to do a Part VII and how have these changed over time? • What are the latest trends in Part VII transfers? • What process is used in other countries?

This week we talk to LCP principal Cecilia Cheuk about the latest developments in the Irish market. We discuss: • Overview of the Irish market. • What are the latest initiatives from the Irish Government and the CBI? • What has been the impact on the Irish market post Brexit? • How are firms tackling climate change and making the most of AI?

This week we talk to LCP partner Cat Drummond about the latest developments in capital modelling for general insurers. We discuss: • Findings from LCP’s latest market research and benchmarking, covering both technical developments, process and resourcing issues • Key challenges for insurers, from soft markets to regulatory expectations • How insurers are reflecting changing geopolitical and climate risks in their capital models

S6 Ep. 4 - The insurance M&A market by Lane Clark & Peacock