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Press Release: The Geneva Association Awards its 2017 Research Grant on Digitalisation

The Geneva Association, the leasing international think tank of the insurance industry, is pleased to announce that the winner of its 2017 Research Grant is Ms Susana Vasserman for her Doctoral research proposal on Digitialisation in Insurance. Ms Vasserman is a graduate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and is currently a Ph.D candidate in Economics at Harvard University in the U.S..

Press Release: Harnessing Technology to Narrow the Insurance Protection Gap

Leading think tank of the international insurance industry, The Geneva Association has published a new report that describes how digital and other modern technologies can be harnessed by the insurance industry to narrow insurance protection gaps in mature, and especially in developing insurance markets, by enhancing the awareness, affordability and attractiveness of insurance products and solutions.

Press Release: Geneva Association calls for Integrated Approach to Managing Extreme Events and Climate Risks

  • Disaster loss events are on the rise. Of those 91% were caused by weather-related extremes (1980-2015).  These weather–related extremes caused the loss of more than 600,000 lives and more than USD 3 trillion in total economic losses
  • Detailed independent analysis and research shows that countries with a robust penetration of market-based disaster insurance coverage recover faster from the financial impacts of extreme events
  • (Re)insurance has become a key element of UN and governmental strategic disaster risk reduction efforts (e.g.
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