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Personalisation

The biggest trend in insurance raises some of the most fundamental ethical questions. You can read about these here.
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Personalisation
Insurance and the Importance of Words and Language public
Personalisation • 6 min read

Insurance and the Importance of Words and Language

The big structural change in insurance is the trend from pooling to personalisation. It has lots of implications, and in consequence, lots of views about how they should be weighed up. If a consensus is to be reached, it is vital that words and language are chosen carefully and used correctly.…
Duncan Minty
Duncan Minty •
The Social Scoring Ban – Confusion for Insurers public
Underwriting • 6 min read

The Social Scoring Ban – Confusion for Insurers

Should insurers feel reassured by EU guidance about the prohibition on social scoring in the AI Act? It would be easy for them to think that way. The problem is that the guidance has some flawed assumptions about insurance. When those are corrected, the prohibition should be taken very seriously.…
Duncan Minty
Duncan Minty •
Personalised Insurance and Climate Change Resilience public
Personalisation • 4 min read

Personalised Insurance and Climate Change Resilience

Take two of the biggest trends influencing insurance at the moment – personalisation of underwriting and climate change. How do they interact? Do they support each other or are they in conflict? It’s unlikely to be so binary of course, so what are the factors that need to be weighed up?…
Duncan Minty
Duncan Minty •
The Tension that Digital Marketing Must Address public
Marketing • 3 min read

The Tension that Digital Marketing Must Address

The digital environment that insurers now focus on presents marketeers with some tough choices. Some choices are well known ones relating to technology and distribution. Others are less visited ones like relationships and trust. I look at a significant tension inherent in all this.…
Duncan Minty
Duncan Minty •
Pricing is in the Spotlight Again public
Underwriting • 4 min read

Pricing is in the Spotlight Again

Research by the University of Bristol into the reasons why low income families pay more for motor cover applies further pressure on insurers in four already sensitive areas. It represents an interweaving of related issues towards one big push, oven ready for political intervention.…
Duncan Minty
Duncan Minty •
There Will Be More Than One Future to Insurance public
Personalisation • 4 min read

There Will Be More Than One Future to Insurance

A lot of thinking about the future of insurance is premised upon the notion that personalisation is that future. Yet the future of insurance is so important, it’s vital not to just assume that this is the only way forward. I look at other ways in which it is likely to be envisioned.…
Duncan Minty
Duncan Minty •
Should Minimum Insurance be Mandated to boost Resilience public
Personalisation • 6 min read

Should Minimum Insurance be Mandated to boost Resilience

The financial resilience of UK society is widely seen to be declining. People are caught between the trend in finance to take more responsibility for personal risks and the increasingly granular pricing of those risks. Is the solution to be found in some form of mandatory minimum insurance cover?…
Duncan Minty
Duncan Minty •
Embedded Insurance and Manufactured Vulnerability public
Marketing • 6 min read

Embedded Insurance and Manufactured Vulnerability

Embedded insurance is a form of hyper-personalisation designed to present the right product to you just when you need it and most likely to buy it. In short, data fuelled prescriptive marketing. Yet if marketing is about persuasion, how do insurers steer clear of digital manipulation?…
Duncan Minty
Duncan Minty •
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