Strategic Issues in Insurance Essays in Honour of Orio Giarini

This book contains a number of essays dealing with the challenges that the insurance industry faces today and tomorrow. Among others: general and specific business strategies; internet, e–commerce and distribution; the changing regulatory environment for conducting insurance business; ethical behavior, corporate culture and the new work environment; insurance in established and emerging markets; risk management and controlling; financial markets and reinsurance challenges. It discusses not only current topics but also addresses open questions where the insurance industry still has to find some of the answers.

The list of authors includes not only prominent insurance experts and academics but also top insurance managers like Carlo Acutis (CEO, Vittoria), Hans Bartelds (Chairman, Fortis), Claude Bébéar (Surveillance Board President, AXA), Alfonso Desiata (President, Generali), Dietrich Karner (Chairman, Generali Holding Vienna), Walter Kielholz (CEO, Swiss Re), Filomeno Mira (Vice Chairman, MAPFRE), Arthur Ryan (CEO, Prudential of America), Rolf Schäuble (CEO, Bâloise), Hans–Jürgen Schinzler (Chairman, Munich Re), João Talone (CEO, EUREKO), Max Taylor (Chairman, Lloyd's), and Jürgen Zech (CEO, Gerling Group).

This book is a Geneva Association publication, produced in collaboration with the distinguished Geneva Papers on Risk and Insurance Issues and Practice, the quarterly journal for the insurance and risk management sector. The International Association for the Study of Insurance Economics, called "The Geneva Association", is the renowned international research think–tank of the insurance industry, supported directly by the CEOs of the most prominent insurance companies worldwide. Its main goal is to research the growing importance of worldwide insurance activities in all sectors of the economy and to identify fundamental trends and strategic issues.