Parametric Reputation Insurance

September 9, 2024

Affirming in practice what it disclosed in January, Blackrock "engaged 2,683 times on strategy, purpose and financial resilience-related themes with 2,014 companies — more than any of its other engagement priorities — this proxy year. Given this information, board directors may want to prioritize financial resilience in their own work and in engagement with index funds." Steel City Re can provide metrics and tools to support innovative strategies for strengthening financial resilience.

Affirming in practice what it disclosed in January, Blackrock “engaged 2,683 times on strategy, purpose and financial resilience-related themes with 2,014 companies — more than any of its other engagement priorities — this proxy year. Given this information, board directors may want to prioritize financial resilience in their own work and in engagement with index funds.” Steel City Re can provide metrics and tools to support innovative strategies for strengthening financial resilience.

August 8, 2024

Quantas ex-CEO Forfeits Bonus for Reputation Damage

Qantas Airways Ltd. docked A$9.3 million ($6.1 million) from former Chief Executive Officer Alan Joyce’s final payout and announced a governance overhaul after a review partly blamed board and management errors for the carrier’s reputational crisis. This punitive action conforms to heightened expectations this year by both institutional investors and proxy advisers that companies should be clawing back CEO compensation for both reputational damage and for failures in risk management, even if financials do not have to be restated. This should help focus board attention to the factors that increase, protect, and restore reputation value including reputation risk intelligence, risk management, and reputation value insurance (aka, Side R).

August 7, 2024

Board members and those in C-suite executive positions view the reputational risks posed by litigation as the most significant risks facing their businesses. This suggests that litigation risk counts as one of the principal, strategic considerations of large companies, rather than being a purely operational or legal concern.

FTI Consulting’s research found that Board members and those in C-suite executive positions view the reputational risks posed by litigation as the most significant risks facing their businesses. This suggests that litigation risk counts as one of the principal, strategic considerations of large companies, rather than being a purely operational or legal concern.

July 25, 2024

Seventy-seven per cent of respondents to the July 25 2024 Airmic Big Question said their organisations model and quantify reputational risk – making it the top climate transition risk that their organisations measure. […] With the rise in cases of greenwashing reported around the world, reputational risk – as it relates to the climate transition – has emerged as a top concern.

June 8, 2024

Lacking good solutions, $25 billion of Marsh clients’ premium is going to captives. Hey! Steel City Re's insurance is made for complex risk!

Captives are a solution to the lack of innovation. Martin South, president and chief executive officer, Marsh, was being interview by Penny Randall Seach, group chief underwriting officer, Zurich Insurance Company in a Global CEO fireside discussion at AIRMIC called ‘Global forces driving change: a future outlook’ Because the industry is not offering products that address clients’s needs as risks evolve, “some $25 billion of Marsh clients’ premium is now being retained using this form of risk transfer.“ In other news, insurer AXA is reorganizing US operations. Layoffs are expected. Meanwhile, Steel City Re has on offer a remarkably innovative original outcome-based solution to the most complex risk of all. It is a solution insureds have wanted since 2005, and it is backed today by Tokio Marine Kiln.

June 1, 2024

Parametric solutions are gaining prevalence as “insureds sought to support their retention strategies or close the protection gap.”

Take up rates for parametric risk transfer, insurance and reinsurance solutions have grown “dramatically” over the last year, according to broker Aon. In particular, Aon highlights a rapid shift in both insurance market and corporate risk transfer buyers perceptions of risk transfer alternatives, which is helping to drive more rapid uptake of parametric solutions. […] “There has never been a greater need for alternative risk transfer solutions, including parametric solutions and captives.”