The rapid spread of internet-enabled devices and universal connectivity has changed consumer behaviours and expectations across all industries, particularly among the younger generations. The digital age has also brought an explosion of heterogeneous ...

Global growth remains weak and will slow over next two years. Last year marked the peak of the cycle, and our current forecasts for US and euro area growth of 1.6% and 0.9% in 2020, respectively, are below consensus. The largest down revision is to ...

Working Paper, the bimonthly educational, exploratory, and analytical journal, in its 45th edition has dealt with accounting standards in the context of contingency reserves and natural hazards.

The annual report of the Iranian insurance industry along with the performance overview of Bimeh Markazi Iran (Central Insurance of IR Iran) during the financial year 1396 (2017-2018) is now available online and in print.

The catastrophe experience of 2018 reaffirms that the loss impact of secondary peril events is anything but “secondary”. Total economic losses from natural catastrophes and man-made disasters in 2018 were USD 165 billion. The catastrophe ...

Global economic growth supported the insurance sector in 2018, with real gross domestic product (GDP)1 up 3.2%. We forecast that global growth will weaken to around 2.8% in 2020, as advanced markets and China slow while emerging economies strengthen.