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Risk in context podcast: Adapting insurance programs to evolving risks through analytics-driven decisions

In this episode Marsh leaders discuss how data-focused analysis can help organizations gain a comprehensive understanding of how the evolving risk landscape can impact their organization and help them build more responsive insurance programs.

In today's rapidly changing risk landscape, organizations are confronted with complex risks that can significantly impede their ability to achieve their strategic goals. The increasing frequency and severity of losses, coupled with catastrophic events, have heightened risk volatility, putting risk managers and senior leaders under increased pressure to make decisions that help them protect their organization and its assets.

Effectively navigating this evolving  risk environment requires businesses to implement a robust insurance program that not only provides necessary protection, but also aligns with their unique risk appetite and minimizes their total cost of risk. Data-grounded analysis helps senior leaders gain valuable insights to better understand how shifting risk dynamics may impact their operations, allowing them to more confidently align their insurance programs with their specific needs and evolving risk profile.

In this episode of Risk in Context, Richard Baudin, Leader of Marsh’s International Specialty Advisory Practice, talks with David Kraft, Head of Risk Analytics for Europe, Lauren Irwin, UK Retail Cyber Sub-Team Leader, and Claire Garrett, Head of Marsh’s Financial Institutions Practice in the UK. They discuss how data-focused analysis can help organizations gain a comprehensive understanding of how the evolving risk landscape can impact their organization and help them build more responsive insurance programs.

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Key takeaways

Analytics help optimize insurance strategies

As the risk landscape changes and the insurance market shifts, data-based analytics programs help organizations understand and quantify their changing risk profile and identify changes to improve their insurance program and better align it to their evolving risk profile.

Data-based programs enable proactive decisions

As insurance rates change and risks evolve, organizations should consider regular data-grounded reviews of their risk transfer program, allowing them to be agile in making the necessary changes to remain resilient and responsive to an ever-changing risk environment.

Analytics facilitate the identification of risk management deficiencies

A robust analytics program can help organizations identify potential gaps and deficiencies in their risk management strategies and take action to improve them, which may, in turn, also impact their ability to secure adequate insurance coverage.

About our speakers

Richard Baudin

Richard Baudin

International Specialties Advisory Practice Leader

  • United Kingdom

Richard Baudin is the Leader of Marsh’s International Specialties Advisory Practice where he advises large and complex corporations and organizations on their risk financing strategy, overall risk management, and emerging risks. In serving global clients, he ensures that we have the best Advisory teams from across our firm delivering the comprehensive value of Marsh Advisory. He leads the strategy for Marsh International for Specialty Advisory, and the teams across international regions.

Lauren Irwin

Lauren Irwin

Retail Cyber Sub-Team Leader

  • United Kingdom

Lauren Irwin is the UK Retail Cyber Sub-Team Leader. Based in London, her responsibilities include broking, structuring complex placements, vital account servicing, building relationships across the Lloyds and London market, as well as advisory work for some of Marsh’s largest clients. While she is currently focused on UK-domiciled clients, she has a host of international experience.

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Claire Garrett

Head, Financial Institutions Practice, UK

  • United Kingdom

Claire Garrett is the Head of the Financial Institutions Practice in the UK. She has over 20 years’ experience working in the insurance industry. She joined Marsh in 2011 from a city law firm, where she was an insurance litigator for 10 years. In her current role, she is responsible for the management and oversight of financial lines programs for some of our largest global financial institutions, including insurance companies, banks, building societies, and fund managers.

David Kraft

David Kraft

Head of Risk Analytics, Continental Europe

  • Netherlands

David Kraft is the Head of Marsh Advisory Analytics Solutions in Europe. In this role he is responsible for the sales and delivery of Marsh’s wide range of capabilities in risk analytics, including data-based risk modelling, development of risk coverage options (including alternative risk transfer solutions) leveraging Marsh analytical tools, and global perspective on risk management solutions.

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