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Water Security: Billions remain without water access
Today, over two billion people still lack access to safe drinking...
Class Action Suits: 2 separate cases to provide level a playing field for India’s minority investors
Following the insertion in 2016 of a class-action provision in the...
AI matching human intelligence still decades away: CA research scientists
Many leading commentators have mentioned from time to time that human intelligence in machines is less than a decade away. Scientists now realise that making machines is easy, but bringing in the whole gamut of ethics, human rights and social construct would be difficult to imbed.
Personal Cyber Insurance-Security Packages Being Tested with Wealthy
With no universal reporting, it is hard to get a good grasp on cyber security problems and figure out a way to solve them. Eva Velasquez, president of the Identity Theft Resource Center (idtheftcenter.org), said that if more people reported hacking incidents it would help.
How Carmakers Raise Prices for Spare Parts Based on ‘Perceived Value’: Reuters
The software works, Accenture told prospective clients, by identifying which spare parts in a manufacturer’s range customers would be content to pay more for, how much to raise prices by and which prices should not be hiked
Strict curbs on global warming to buoy world economy: Study
The Paris accord, among almost 200 nations, set a goal of limiting a rise in average world surface temperatures to “well below” 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 Fahrenheit) above pre-industrial times by 2100, while “pursuing efforts” for 1.5C (2.7F).
Protection from Farm to Florist
For the intermediaries along the value chain, especially wholesalers, Trade Receivables insurance also helps protect profitability
Health and well-being programs fragmented, do not meet the needs of stressed Asia workforces: Willis
-Over half of employees in Asia have elevated levels of stress.
– While employers endeavour to engage them in an increasing array of
non-traditional benefits, there is still a disconnect with employees.
– Finding the “right” programs and leveraging technology will be key as
employers start to take a more strategic approach toward health
Enhancing Customer Experience with robotic process automation
Given the importance of actuarial science in insurance, robotic process automation (RPA) is the right fit for this industry
Uneasy,pessimistic,and concerned:Deloitte Millennial Survey
-Millennials and Gen Z show less loyalty to and less confidence in business.
-Distrustful of companies’ motivation and ethics, respondents call for business leaders to positively impact the broader world.
-As loyalty levels retreat, diversity and flexibility are keys to retention as gig economy expands.
-Millennials and Gen Z feel unprepared for Industry 4.0 changes—want business to help them develop skills needed to succeed.
Building Data Equity in the world of Insurance!
Increasing number of Indian Insurers are now adopting analytics to gain competitive differentiation in an industry where very little innovation has taken place.
Gender inequality could be costing Asia Pacific $4.5 trillion: McKinsey
“Women can help — and are helping — to power this engine, making vital contributions to sustaining and enhancing Asia’s growth and lifting more people out of poverty,” the report’s authors wrote. “Yet gaps remain large in many countries in the region on genderequality both in work and in society.”