Wednesday, February 17, 2010

Challenges In The Insurance Industry

Insurance industry is a highly competitive and exposed to broad range of risks. Globalization, outsourcing, increasing regulatory requirements are contributing to the increased instability in the insurance industry.

Key challenges in insurance industry:
  • Growth: Insurance companies will need to design innovative products, sell the products effectively, and strengthen the relationship with agents and brokers for better growth.
  • Managing Compliance: Each country will have set of rule. Growing regulatory requirements are bringing increased complexity in the insurance industries.
  • Managing Catastrophes: The insurance industry needs to mange the sudden losses. The unpredictable nature of catastrophe is the key challenge for an insurance industry.
  • Governance and risk management: The main concept of insurance is the risk management. Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) capabilities help the insurance industries from sudden losses. ERM provide a platform for strengthening governance and regulatory compliance.
  • Compliance and Regulations: The key challenge of an insurance sector is how to integrate the regulatory demands in the insurance business.
The above mentioned are key challenges for all insurance industries. And each insurance policy will have different type of challenges.

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