Population ageing, shifting disease patterns and rising costs of care are putting traditional healthcare systems under increasing pressure. New Care Models (NCMs) aim to tackle the problem through better coordination of health and care provision, by enhancing services closer to home and outside hospital settings, and encouraging interventions to promote good health. This report explores the current evidence on the effectiveness of NCMs and outlines what insurers need to do to successfully adopt them.

The Geneva Association was able to fully deliver on its research and event programme in 2020, despite the constraints of the pandemic. Our 2020 Annual Report gives a complete overview of our work, with a special new section dedicated to impact.

Insurance regulators and standard-setting bodies are increasingly focused on devising methodologies for climate risk assessment and scenario analysis to support the insurance industry in dealing with the potential impacts of climate change. This issue brief produced by the Geneva Association Task Force on Climate Change Risk Assessment for the Insurance Industry, offers a review of the activities of 12 international, regional, national and sub-national financial services regulatory bodies and their associated strengths and challenges. 

COVID-19 initiated or accelerated major changes in 2020 and 2021 – social, economic, political and technological. As societies begin to emerge from the pandemic, it is important for insurers to understand which trends will stick and how their businesses will be impacted. Our report sheds new light.

The study draws on 25 interviews with experts and industry executives and on a global customer survey of 8,000 insurance customers – both retail and commercial – across eight countries (Brazil, China, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the U.K., and the U.S.).