Geneva Association Ernst Meyer Prize 2019 Recognizes Academic Contributions to Key Issues Facing Insurance Industry

The 2019 Geneva Association Ernst Meyer Prize has been granted to Christian Kubitza of Goethe University (Frankfurt) for his thesis, Essays on Financial Stability and Insurance Markets, and to Alexis Louass of Ecole Polytechnique (Paris) for his thesis, Insurability of Catastrophic Risks.

Press release: Insurers take decisive step in climate risk modelling through cross-sectoral mobilisation

Developing and scaling up the integration of the next generation of risk models requires cross-sectoral collaboration, and the insurance industry plays a critical role as risk managers and investors. This was a key takeaway of The Geneva Association's 2019 Climate Change Forum held 11–12 July in London, sponsored by Tokio Marine Holdings.

Insurers can leverage behavioral economics to address the protection gap

Applying behavioral economics can help reduce the enormous barrier to people buying insurance – their cognitive biases – that causes the protection gap.

This interview accompanies the research report Underinsurance in Mature Economies: Reasons and remedies. It was conducted on the sidelines of the 46th Annual General Assembly in Buenos Aires.

Building trust is key to addressing underinsurance in mature markets: Geneva Association customer survey

Insurance protection gaps in mature markets could be narrowed by reinforcing trust in insurers, reveals a survey commissioned by The Geneva Association. The research report Underinsurance in Mature Economies: Reasons and remedies distils a number of takeaways from the survey's results and proposes a framework of five factors that influence underinsurance: institutions, sociodemographics, economics, behavior and culture. 

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