Events

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17 May

Aon’s Delegated Investment Webinar: Your buyout journey – doing it with more certainly & less cost

Online Event

14:15 – 15:00pm

There are many different steps involved in getting your scheme prepared for a successful buyout transaction. But how far in advance should you start planning and how can this translate to more certainty and less cost for your scheme?

We believe the optimal time to start preparing is 7-10 years before you buy out. Careful planning and management of your investment strategy alongside wider strategic activities can result in material cost savings, more certainty and capturing of early opportunities.

In this webinar, specialists from our investment and risk settlement teams will explore practical tips on planning a successful journey. You’ll hear from an insurer, who will share first-hand experiences on why thinking like an insurer can provide attractive pricing terms.

Key topics that will be discussed include:

How to prepare your assets at the outset and as you move closer to buyout – Lucy Barron, Investment Partner
Considerations and benefits of doing phased buy-ins and managing investment through the broking process – Mike Edwards, Partner, Risk Settlement
What makes a scheme more attractive to insurers in a busy market – Sammy Cooper-Smith, Rothesay

Please register here to attend this webinar - there will also be opportunities to ask questions to our experts through the live event.

18 May

Claim your view of risk: Expert panel shares their best practices

Online Event

Duration: 1 hour
Option 1: 9AM BST
Option 2: 3PM BST

Option 1 – Moderated by Peter Cheesman – Head of APAC Analytics, Aon
William Song - Chief Risk Officer, MSIG Asia
Alex Pui – Head of Nat Cat and Sustainability, Swiss Re
Michael Pennell, Chief Underwriting Officer, Australian Reinsurance Pool Corporation

Option 2 - Moderated by Dan Dick, Global Head of Catastrophe Management, Aon
Judith Cerda-Belmonte – Head of NatCat Competence Centre, UNIQA Group
Markus Stowasser, Global Head of Cat Risk Management, Allianz Re
TBC

Explore how companies define and manage their view of risk across different continents, operating environments and regulatory frameworks. Re/insurance experts discuss how catastrophe analytics platforms and model evaluation techniques help develop a view of risk, while identifying other key factors that play a part in shaping your catastrophe reinsurance, underwriting and capital strategies.

25 May

Navigating climate risk: How new modelled solutions are enhancing our IQ

Online Event

Duration: 1 hour
Option 1: 1AM BST
Option 2: 3PM BST

Discussion Duration: 1 hour

Adam Sobel, Professor, Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics, and LamontDoherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University
Steven Bowen, Head of Catastrophe Insight, Impact Forecasting

As climate change becomes an increasingly important topic for many industry stakeholders, the integration of the private sector with academic partners is a critical step forward to develop mitigation and resilience strategies. This session will highlight Impact Forecasting’s collaboration with Columbia University on tropical cyclone behaviour in climate change scenarios, and also speak more broadly to how new research and data is helping to better quantify and qualify our understanding of climate risk.

Participate in the discussion: After the presentation, join us for an optional interactive discussion to share and explore the challenges and opportunities with climate change.

27 May

Broking Insight Series Webinar

Online Event

10am - 11am

Join us for the next Broking Insight Webinar where we will focus on the latest market data, plus much more

Click here to find out more.

1 June

European peril spotlight: Atmospheric, flood and earthquake models

Online Event

Duration: 1 hour
Option 1: 9AM BST
Option 2: 3PM BST

Petr Puncochar Head of Flood Model Development for EMEA & APAC, Impact Forecasting
Svetlana Stripajova, Earthquake Model Developer, Impact Forecasting
Alexandros Georgiadis, Head of Weather Risk Modelling EMEA, Impact Forecasting

Be blown away with the latest Europe windstorm model features, discover how the new pan-European flood event set will help to manage cross-country risks and finally explore how we are developing a new Italian earthquake model as part of Impact Forecasting’s roadmap for the region.

8 June

Managing U.S. catastrophe risk with new model insights

Online Event

Duration: 1 hour
Option 1: 1AM BST
Option 2: 3PM BST

Bin Pei, Associate Director – Hurricane Modeling, Impact Forecasting
Farhad Sedaghati, Head of U.S. Earthquake Model Development, Impact Forecasting
Will Skinner, Head of Business Development, Impact Forecasting

With U.S. insured losses reaching $73bn in 2020 – 82% above average since 2000, Impact Forecasting is continuously enhancing its models. Discover the features of the new Florida hurricane model and the earthquake model plus updates for our wildfire and severe convective storm models. In addition, learn how you can boost risk transfer and pricing with technology integration across Aon’s modeling and underwriting platforms comprising CatScore, Automated Event Response for U.S. Hurricane and ELEMENTS.

15 June

Japan typhoon model spotlight: Bridging the gap in the Japanese re/insurance market

Online Event

Duration: 1 hour
Option 1: 9AM BST
Option 2: 3PM BST

Radovan Drinka, Head of Weather Risk Modelling APAC, Impact Forecasting
Oriol Gaspa Rebull, Head of Analytics Japan, Aon

Despite below average activity in the North West Pacific during 2020, typhoon risk in Japan remains in re/insurers’ spotlight. We discuss the large events of 2018 and 2019 in the context of stochastic model variability and how the view of risk in Japan has been fortified by the new Impact Forecasting typhoon model. As part of an ongoing quest to enhance typhoon risk decisions, we reveal our development of client-specific vulnerability curves and the benefits of Automated Event Response for this region.

14-17 June

Aon’s Virtual DC Live Week: Keeping on track in challenging times

Online Event

The Aon DC Live week will bring you the latest thinking and thought leadership, including findings from the 2021 DC Member and Financial Wellbeing Survey. Sessions will take place between Monday the 14 June and Thursday the 17 June 2021.

View the full agenda here and register to attend here.

22 June

Seizing the opportunities of open catastrophe modelling with ELEMENTS and Oasis

Online Event

Duration: 1 hour
Option 1: 9AM BST
Option 2: 3PM BST

Discussion Duration: 1 hour

Option 1
Chris Ewing, Head of Client Management, Impact Forecasting
Sarka Cerna, Head of Product Development for EMEA, APAC & Canada, Impact Forecasting

Option 2
Nehal Naik, Head of Software Development, Impact Forecasting
Ashwin Joseph, Business Development Manager, Impact Forecasting

Many re/insurers are embracing open catastrophe modelling to expand their choice of models, reduce operational inefficiencies and take control of their view of risk. We reveal how you can benefit from the integration of the Oasis loss calculation engine in the ELEMENTS platform. We also introduce new features in ELEMENTS 15, plus how Impact Workbench can help you to navigate the world of Open Exposure Data.

Participate in the discussion: After the presentation, join us for an optional interactive discussion to share and explore the challenges and opportunities with adopting models in open platforms.

29 June

Aon’s Research Forum 2021

Online Event

Duration: 1 hour
10AM BST

Ladislav Palan, Lead Flood Model Developer & Chairman of Aon´s Research Forum, Impact Forecasting
Peter Pazak, Lead Earthquake Model Developer, Impact Forecasting
Sharanjit Paddam, Head of ESG Risk, QBE Group
Peter Cheesman, Head of Analytics (APAC),Aon.
James Knight, Head of Catastrophe Research (ANZ), Aon

Ten years after: lessons learnt from the New Zealand earthquake

On February 22, 2011, a magnitude 6.3 earthquake hit New Zealand’s South Island. For this event, with the epicenter very close to the cities of Christchurch and Lyttelton, the shaking was more destructive and the liquefaction more extensive than any previous earthquake in New Zealand’s recent history. The earthquake caused USD27bn in damage, equating to 20% of GDP, with 185 people losing their lives and 15,000 losing their homes. We explore how the re/insurance market has matured with products adapted to local requirements and the evolution of rigorously-enforced building codes.

Back to the Future for Catastrophe and Climate Risk

We look backwards (at 2011) and forwards (at future decades) to understand weather peril projections and their financial implications. Sharanjit Paddam from QBE Group, who led the Climate Measurement Standards Initiative (CMSI), will discuss the recommendations for the climate change analytics that will drive the insurance industry while Aon’s Peter Cheesman and James Knight provide examples of the standards in practice.