Articles November 2016
Combatting Fraud through Predictive Modeling

The problem is well documented: fraud in the protection space has produced significant underwriting losses throughout the Indian insurance industry.

 
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Articles November 2016
Keys to Bancassurance Success: Innovation and Alignment in Distribution
The global bancassurance market is a sizable and increasingly important channel for protection products Read More
Research and White Papers November 2016
Update: Fatal Distraction
The statistics are clear – distracted driving is deadly. Each day in the U.S., more than eight people lose their lives and 1,161 are injured in crashes involving a distracted driver. Read More
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Articles November 2016
Defining Innovation: The New Vocabulary of Business Ecosystems
The insurance industry is primed for alignment with intersecting industries and for the next generation of innovators and entrepreneurs to lead the way. Read More
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Articles November 2016
Insuring Asia, Product Design and Customer Segmentation: The young, the old and the very rich
Mr Michael S. Shin, CEO, Ë¿¹ÏÊÓƵAPP Korea, looks at the demographic trends shaping Asia and the need for insurers to adapt their solutions to the tech-savvy millennial, high net worth individual and the senior. Read More
Behavioral Science: Puzzle illustration, human shape
Articles October 2016
Behavioural Economics and Insurance: An Actuary’s View
The psychology and drivers of choice are becoming core elements in how life insurers are looking to meet fundamental challenges. The fast-growing field of behavioural economics, which looks at how individual biases affect purchase decisions, is becoming a more significa... Read More
Articles October 2016
Voluntary Products and the Growth Imperative
Discovering new paths to growth is the biggest challenge for insurers today – and the biggest opportunity. Voluntary benefit products, along with associated modernization, offer a vehicle to meet this growth imperative. 
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Research and White Papers October 2016
Genetic Testing in Insurance: Challenges and Opportunities I
 Information from genetic tests has the potential to improve population mortality and morbidity experience, but there are many challenges for insurers in using such information. Read More
Articles October 2016
Macro-economic Headwinds: Insurance Companies’ Strategic Options for Resilience
Winner of the Best Essay Competition at 10th Annual Multaqa Qatar. Since the onset of the 2008 economic downturn and credit crunch, the world economic stage has been set for an abnormally long period of protracted sub-par growth. Read More
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Articles October 2016
Credit Life Insurance
Across geographies, the financial sector is a significant contributor to any economy. Yet, financially engineered products carry inherent risks, including the death or disability of the borrower. Group credit life products, and their design and administration, are the k... Read More
Articles September 2016
Ramifications of Utility, Importance Gains for Patient-Generated Health Data (PGHD)
Patient-reported outcomes are important – they provide perspective … that might not be captured by clinical measurement. Ë¿¹ÏÊÓƵAPP explores the insurance considerations.  Read More
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Articles September 2016
HIV: Designing Underwriting Guidelines
With the advent of anti-retroviral therapy (ART) in the mid-1990s, HIV has become a controllable (albeit still chronic) disease. This article discusses insurance implications.  Read More
Articles August 2016
Is Group Life Insurance a Commodity? A Call for Value Added Services
I had the recent pleasure of hosting a guided panel discussion at the 2016 SOA Health meeting, which took place June 15-17 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. During the panel, we discussed the competiveness of the group life insurance market and whether it is possible for c... Read More
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Articles August 2016
Aging, The Trillion Dollar Opportunity: Wellness, Wearables, Insurance and the Senior Market
With so much talk about InsurTech for millennials, insurers may be underinvesting in middle-income seniors. Find out how innovators are bringing new technology solutions for seniors to market and contact us to learn how Ë¿¹ÏÊÓƵAPPX is helping to address t... Read More
Articles August 2016
Protection for Taiwan’s fast-aging population
Cost-conscious buyers have been and continue to be more likely to purchase lower-cost, higher-earning savings products from life insurers as an alternative investment vehicle to build their assets Read More
Articles August 2016
Leveraging Data for Growth
Bancassurance growth in Asia has been surging over the past few years, strongly boosted by the main sizable bancassurance deals signed - several of which have valuations in the billions. Read More
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Articles July 2016
Innovation: Wellness, Wearables, and Universal Truths

Insurers first require good answers to several complex questions around wellness’ frictional areas of value, economics, and technology, as well as around issues of trust and engagement.

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Candid financing meeting on Solvency II
Articles June 2016
Market Risk Reinsurance Solutions under Solvency II
Ë¿¹ÏÊÓƵAPP's Paul Sauvé, Senior Vice President, EMEA, Global Financial Solutions offers three observations about the evolution of Solvency II regulation over the past two decades and the emergence of cost-efficient reinsurance solutions for risk management.  Read More
Articles June 2016
Simplified Underwriting and Application Language

Many insurance advisors might also say that today’s full underwriting process is not only long, but can be daunting for the advisor as well as the applicant.

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Articles June 2016
Voluntary Solutions
Amid rising costs and evolving needs, how can group insurers improve their competitive positions – and protect profitability? Read More