
Business Insurance & Risk Market Update
H2 2020
Expert insights & perspectives
After a year of challenges for the world when businesses have been forced to respond to the impact of COVID-19, we are now confronting a host of new considerations in what was already a cautious insurance market. In this edition of our bi-annual Business Insurance & Risk Market Update we look at the risks and opportunities that are emerging for 2021.
Previous issues
May 2020
Expert insights & perspectives
- Professional and financial risks – board governance and directors’ liability
- Food production – challenging times remain from farm to table
- Business continuity – what's your Plan B?
- Cyber – risks evolving as fast technology itself
- Claims – preparing for a new normal.
H2 2019
Second half 2019 Market Overview Report
- How agricultural industries are anticipating a difficult season
- Regulatory activity, class actions and a challenged economy: alerts for company directors
- Business interruption cover key to survival
- Why secondary perils claims are the ones to watch
H1 2019
First half 2019 Market Overview Report
- The impact on the majority of businesses and insurance classes as the insurance market continues to transition
- The importance of risk mitigation strategies for food producers
- The reduced aviation insurance supply in the Australian aviation insurance space
- Why awareness of how cyber and D&O insurance can intersect is critcally important
Q3/Q4 2018
2018: Reflecting on a year of change
- How the tough D&O insurance market is impacting IPOs
- Why surety bonds are soaring as an alternative to bank guarantees
- What's driving sustainable growth in the Australian transport sector
- Major fire events and needles-in-fruit crisis contributing to uncertainty in the food production industry
Q2 2018
Into the breach: Trust and data regulate the new norm
- Insurer pushback on dirty energy projects; increasing appetite for renewable projects
- Australian businesses increase cyber security spend as breach reporting laws kick in
- Legal claims from failed students a key risk as international student population booms
- Critical gap between data and medical science in managing sports concussion injuries
Q1 2018
2018: The year of the reality check?
- How insurance markets will respond to the natural disaster-related losses of 2017
- Whether the mining and resources sector is showing signs of recovery
- The increasing complexity of insolvency appointments in the last 6-8 months
- Whether the east coast infrastructure boom will be hampered by a civil engineering skills shortage
- How the insurance industry needs to respond to the needs of the Australian start-up fintech sector
Q3/Q4 2017
The Perfect Storm: Colliding market forces or black clouds with silver linings?
- How legislative changes will impact workplace risk
- Navigating the compliance minefield in the marine and logistics sector
- The factors driving insolvency risk across Australia
- How a hardening market can disrupt the insurance claims process
- The widening gap between the cost of insurance cover and insurance claims in the oil and gas sector
Q2 2017
Uncertainty vs Optimism: Have we reached a tipping point
- How the climate change and clean energy debate has become one of the most fiercely contested political issues in years
- The impact of new online market giants and rising rents in the retail sector
- The opportunities and risks of the Government's ambitious infrastructure plans
- The evolving cyber security and terror threats