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Duncan Minty

Duncan Minty

Duncan has been researching and writing about ethics in insurance for over 20 years. As a Chartered Insurance Practitioner, he combines market knowledge with a strong and independent radar on ethics.
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Duncan Minty
Is Adverse Selection being Replaced by Inverse Selection? public
Underwriting • 4 min read

Is Adverse Selection being Replaced by Inverse Selection?

Insurers have long been concerned about adverse selection. They see today’s data and analytics as helping them reduce their exposure to it. Yet that explosion of data and analytics could not just reduce adverse selection, but flip it over, creating what is being called inverse selection.…
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Is Open Data Compatible with Insurance? public
Underwriting • 4 min read

Is Open Data Compatible with Insurance?

There’s a lot of upbeat talk about how open data could revolutionise insurance. The seamless exchange of data and cover seems so simple. Yet dig around a bit and contradictions emerge. Are the principles of open data and insurance underwriting sufficiently in sync? It’s an open question.…
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Underwriting • 2 min read

Is the FCA a Price Regulator?

Is price in UK insurance markets regulated? There’s a game of words going on at the moment. The regulator told the sector last week that it’s not a price regulator. How should the sector react to that? Will they be convinced?…
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Are Regulators Sitting on an Algorithmic Fence? public
Data Ethics • 3 min read

Are Regulators Sitting on an Algorithmic Fence?

A key question for insurers over the next 5 years will be how regulators handle the issues raised by their increasing use of algorithms. The message being signalled in a recent paper by the Digital Regulation Cooperation Forum is clear. And the position they’re taking will be an uncomfortable one.…
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Machine Unlearning - a New Digital Capability for Insurers public
Data Ethics • 4 min read

Machine Unlearning - a New Digital Capability for Insurers

Some serious exposures are looming on insurers’ reputational horizons. Most stem from how their digital technologies have been configured. If any of those exposures are realised, insurers will have to both delete ‘bad data’ and remove its influence on their models. It’s called machine unlearning…
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