Publications

November 14, 2022

Parametric insurance ESG authentication. How can companies use parametric insurance to prove their ESG bona fides?

Parametric insurance ESG authentication. Parametric insurance, which has long been popular in disaster recovery, is gaining steam as a proxy for proving the effectiveness of ESG programs. Nir Kossovsky and Denise Williamee of insurer Steel City Re explore details of this novel ESG solution. Insurance-based authentication — a regulatory lynchpin — is a recent innovation made possible by parametric insurance solutions.

October 17, 2022

Well-underwritten parametric reputation insurance. Parametric insurance policies have been in use for years by Tokio Marine Kiln for reputation loss.

Well underwritten parametric reputation insurance. Parametric triggers for insurance can be anything quantifiable. In the case of my firm, Steel City Re, we use parametric measures of reputational value in our Tokio Marine Kiln policies. Parametric policies provide for ease of underwriting, facilitate claims adjustment, and enable coverage to insure complex risks including reputation and environmental, social, and corporate governance (ESG) factors-linked reputation loss.

September 13, 2022

Road to reputation resilience. Combining the marketing, risk and legal forces will put companies in the best position to withstand today’s volatile social climate.

Road to Reputation Resilience. In this era of stakeholder capitalism, corporate engagement on controversial social issues, wars, pandemics, and vague or aspirational environmental, social and governance (ESG) goals driving investor decisions, “reputation management” is incomplete without “reputation risk management” and, increasingly, legal compliance. Marketers cannot do it alone. Click on the image above to read …

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September 8, 2022

“’Captives show risk management can be a value centre,’ say representatives from Steel City Re.”

Captive Insurance Can Be a Value Center Captives enable risk professionals to play a tangible and demonstrable role in enhancing corporate profitability. It also allows them to control management and decision-making with respect to claims – a key function that is often overlooked […] Perhaps most importantly, it provides captive managers witha simple, clear, and …

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