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Speaker 1: Thomas Bubel is a CEO of Accent, one of the

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Speaker 1: world's largest insurance companies. I recently had a chance to

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Speaker 1: sit down with him to talk about the risk facing

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Speaker 1: global insurance, particularly relating to war and climate change. Explain

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Speaker 1: to people who aren't familiar with life insurance or health

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Speaker 1: insurance or any kind of insurance, what is the main business.

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Speaker 1: It's the underwrite, what the risk is, make a profit

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Speaker 1: presumably on the premiums you charge, and then take those

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Speaker 1: premiums and invest it and do well on the investment

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Speaker 1: as well.

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Speaker 2: Is that right?

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Speaker 3: Yes?

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Speaker 4: And plus we have to pay claims as well, So

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Speaker 4: we receive at the beginning of the year a premium,

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Speaker 4: we invest the premium, and then when the claim happened,

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Speaker 4: we have to then pay it out. And all of

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Speaker 4: that should be managed in a way that we protect

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Speaker 4: the number of people that we ensure and also make

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Speaker 4: a profit.

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Speaker 1: So on the premium that you charge. The underwriting risk

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Speaker 1: is very complicated. You have to assess what the risk

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Speaker 1: is that somebody will live or die or get an illness,

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Speaker 1: or a property will be damaged. Do you try to

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Speaker 1: make money on the underwriting or you try to break

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Speaker 1: even on that?

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Speaker 4: No, we have to make money on the underwriting because

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Speaker 4: obviously there's capital that needs to be put behind that business,

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Speaker 4: and also we have shareholders that want to return. So

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Speaker 4: what we basically look at we have a lot of

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Speaker 4: historic data that we can use to price a building

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Speaker 4: and then make sure that over the duration of a

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Speaker 4: contract we make sufficient money to remunerate our shareholders and

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Speaker 4: get remuneration.

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Speaker 3: For the risk.

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Speaker 1: What type of return do you try to get on

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Speaker 1: your investments? And do you have thousands of people to

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Speaker 1: invest the money and who does the investing?

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Speaker 4: So what we do is we are not speculators. We

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Speaker 4: very much look at what are our liabilities, and so

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Speaker 4: we invest in terms of duration exactly in the same

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Speaker 4: way that we would expect the liabilities to come, and

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Speaker 4: we mostly hold our assets to maturity. And therefore it

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Speaker 4: really depends what the liability looks like. This determines the

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Speaker 4: return you need, and the longer the liability, the higher

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Speaker 4: the return.

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Speaker 1: Now, Warren Buffett famously bought some life insurance. So I

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Speaker 1: guess reinsurance companies years ago. You bought General Ree and

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Speaker 1: he takes the premiums and he invested in and he

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Speaker 1: very good investor. Is that a model you use, which

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Speaker 1: is to go get really good investors that you give

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Speaker 1: money to and tell them to get a higher rate

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Speaker 1: of return than you would normally get if you're doing

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Speaker 1: it yourself.

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Speaker 4: Yes, I mean, we obviously need to split our assets

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Speaker 4: across many, many asset managers to make sure that we

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Speaker 4: have a high degree of diversification. We have a fullse

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Speaker 4: area of business which is the investment management. So we

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Speaker 4: have ACCE Investment Managers that has around seven hundred billion

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Speaker 4: of assets and we obviously invest a lot through them,

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Speaker 4: but we certainly also do a lot with external asset

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Speaker 4: managers to make sure that we play the market.

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Speaker 3: But also optimized it.

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Speaker 1: So in an era when we have high inflation, high

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Speaker 1: interest rates, what kind of rate of return do you

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Speaker 1: need to get to kind of be comfortable. You need

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Speaker 1: to get a seven, eight, nine, ten percent rate of

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Speaker 1: doing a good job investing the money that you have

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Speaker 4: So again it depends on the liability profile. We always

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Speaker 4: look what is the division of the liability relative.

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Speaker 3: To how we need to invest.

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Speaker 4: But it's obviously clear now that in an environment like this,

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Speaker 4: we need to get much higher return than we used

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Speaker 4: to in a zero interest rate environment. And therefore the

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Speaker 4: insurer is a very slow moving investor. So we invest

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Speaker 4: around ten percent of our balance sheet every year, so

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Speaker 4: it is not that when market changes we immediately change

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Speaker 4: everything to change the return pattern.

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Speaker 1: So if I wanted to go in the insurance business myself,

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Speaker 1: would you recommend that I go into life insurance, automobile insurance,

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Speaker 1: health insurance, property.

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Speaker 2: And casual Which is the best business to go on?

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Speaker 2: Of those four?

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Speaker 4: I would say the property and casualty insurance for commercial

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Speaker 4: business and the health insurance. Why because those are two

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Speaker 4: business that are growing the most. On the property and

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Speaker 4: casualty for company, you've got all the new risks supply

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Speaker 4: chain risk, cyber risk, climate transition risk, and on the

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Speaker 4: health side the question a more longevity but higher healthth

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Speaker 4: cost and how can you help people to live a

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Speaker 4: better life. Those are the two areas I would recommend

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Speaker 1: The biggest risk in property and casualty is that now

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Speaker 1: climate change or climate are kind of things that are

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Speaker 1: changing the way that the Earth deals with weather and

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Speaker 4: Yeah, so absolutely, when you look at natural catestrophes, the

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Speaker 4: number of events has significantly increased, and not only the

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Speaker 4: very big events like hurricanes, but also what we call

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Speaker 4: secondary parrots, so wildfires, floodings, and drought. And this leads

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Speaker 4: to the fact that you have far more events and

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Speaker 4: therefore a much higher cost of all of the natural catestrophes.

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Speaker 1: How do you really assess the risk of climate change,

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Speaker 1: because how can you possibly know whether they're going to

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Speaker 1: be a hurricane or a flood. It's just based on

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Speaker 1: the past or the projection of the future. How do

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Speaker 4: So essentially we use data from the past, but as

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Speaker 4: also look forward. And what we do a lot. We

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Speaker 4: work a lot with scientists who understand what the warming

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Speaker 4: of the earth and climate change will mean for the

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Speaker 4: question of taking risk. And secondly, we take much less

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Speaker 1: So let's suppose there are a lot of hurricanes. Is

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Speaker 1: that good for property and casualty insurance? Or not good

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Speaker 1: because people say, well, there's going to be more hurricanes,

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Speaker 1: I al should buy more insurance or not good because

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Speaker 1: you got to pay a lot of claims.

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Speaker 3: It depends.

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Speaker 4: I would say it's good because I mean a it

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Speaker 4: creates the awareness to do more prevention.

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Speaker 3: What we see.

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Speaker 4: Today is that, as I said earlier, there is more events,

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Speaker 4: we work a lot with our customers around preventions. And

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Speaker 4: so if you look at the large hurricanes, Hurricane Katrina

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Speaker 4: costs have actually come down over time despite inflation.

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Speaker 3: So prevention does work.

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Speaker 1: Let's stop talk about another type of insurance, which is

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Speaker 1: life insurance. Are you better off if people live a

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Speaker 1: long time so they don't claim their life insurance, or

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Speaker 1: you're better off that they die sooner.

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Speaker 3: It always depends.

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Speaker 4: So dying sooner is mostly better because if people live longer,

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Speaker 4: you have the longevity risk and you never know how

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Speaker 4: long people live, but that really depends country by country.

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Speaker 4: We have certainly made the choice of being relatively cautious

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Speaker 4: around life insurance. We used to be eighty percent in

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Speaker 4: life insurance in our whole portfolio.

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Speaker 3: We are now twenty percent in life insurance.

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Speaker 4: Because life insurance is very much financial risk, which is

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Speaker 4: not diversifying. And secondly, it is very much linked to

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Speaker 4: a high degree of regulation which makes the business very,

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Speaker 4: very difficult.

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Speaker 1: Let's talk about health insurance or third type of insurance.

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Speaker 1: So there's a lot of obesity going on in the

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Speaker 1: Western world, a lot of drug abuse in the Western world.

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Speaker 1: Do you take that into account when you sell health insurance?

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Speaker 4: Yes, obviously, I mean you have to give you a BMI,

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Speaker 4: bees are you or not? But even for example this area,

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Speaker 4: we are at the beginning of quite a big revolution.

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Speaker 4: If you look at all the new drugs like ozembic

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Speaker 4: going forward, which is actually an exciting journey to go on.

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Speaker 1: So the United States has a complicated healthcare program. I

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Speaker 1: don't know how it works in Europe, but is our

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Speaker 1: program the United States? Some call it Obamacare Affordable Care Act.

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Speaker 1: Is that program better or worse for health insurance than

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Speaker 1: whatever you have in Europe?

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Speaker 4: Both have the same issue, which is a demographic issue.

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Speaker 4: If you look, for example, in the US, I think

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Speaker 4: about ten to fifteen years ago, about twenty percent of

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Speaker 4: the federal budgets and fiscal budgets were related to welfare.

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Speaker 4: Today we are at thirty nine percent to the fact

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Speaker 4: that people are getting older. You see exactly the same

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Speaker 4: pattern in Europe, So the question around public or more

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Speaker 4: new solutions will be needed.

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Speaker 1: Now, maybe unfairly, but insurance companies have a reputation for saying, well,

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Speaker 1: we'll show you insurance, but when the claim comes they say, well,

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Speaker 1: maybe it's not so as much damage as you claim

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Speaker 1: and they take a long time to pay out. Is

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Speaker 1: that a fair portrayal of the way some insurance companies

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Speaker 1: are and how do you deal with that image?

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Speaker 4: So when I joined the insurance industry in two thousand

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Speaker 4: and five, this image was already there, and I would

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Speaker 4: say at the time it was also justified in a

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Speaker 4: to a certain degree because we were not enough engaged to.

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Speaker 3: Work really for the border society. We were still very bureaucratic.

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Speaker 4: If you're fast forward now twenty almost twenty years forward,

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Speaker 4: this is not the case anymore. We are extremely engaged

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Speaker 4: the whole customer service. So most of it today is

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Speaker 4: very digital and it's much easier both in the administration

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Speaker 1: So let's talk about your background for a moment. Where

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Speaker 3: I was born in Germany.

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Speaker 2: Where did you go to school?

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Speaker 4: I went to school near Disseldof in Germany and did

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Speaker 4: all my childhood in Germany.

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Speaker 1: And you were a German speaker, I assume yes. Did

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Speaker 1: you speak French as well? As a young I learned?

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Speaker 4: I learned French in school. It was my third language.

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Speaker 4: So I did Latin English and then French. And at

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Speaker 1: Now, in the United States, you often hear people saying

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Speaker 1: I want my little boy to grow up to be

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Speaker 1: an investor. They wanted to be a doctor or a lawyer.

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Speaker 1: You never hear people saying, I want my little boy

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Speaker 1: to grow up to be an insurance person. So how

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Speaker 1: did you grow up to be an insurance person? Your

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Speaker 1: parents tell you to be an insurance world.

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Speaker 4: No, not at all when I studied. So after I

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Speaker 4: finished my studies, I wasn't really ready to decide in

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Speaker 4: which industry I went, and so I went into consulting

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Speaker 4: to prolong a little bit. The journey and test certain industries.

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Speaker 4: And so during that consulting time I did amazing projects.

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Speaker 3: Somewhere in insurance.

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Speaker 4: Other were in women's underwear, other were in IT distribution.

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Speaker 4: So I saw very different sectors, and I really liked

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Speaker 4: the insurance sector at the time because I saw exactly

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Speaker 4: is deeply rooted in society because we are basically promoting

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Speaker 4: It always depends on what size of us you talk.

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Speaker 4: So obviously, in our job you have a lot of

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Speaker 3: That spare and help where I can.

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Speaker 4: Does it entice me to switch over to a political

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Speaker 4: I think it's a couple efectors. Number one is fiscal stimulus.

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Speaker 1: Recently, we've had high interest rates and high inflation. I

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Speaker 1: How has technology changed the insurance business and how do

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Speaker 1: Now, you look like you're in pretty good shape. Are

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I do run every morning. I do five kilometers

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Speaker 1: The horse could stumble and you could fall, and the

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Speaker 3: I've fallen many times.

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Speaker 4: Were oversee a helmet and wear a vest like you know,

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Speaker 1: wouldn't give me a life insurance.

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Speaker 4: Yes, they would if you do it. If you don't

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Speaker 4: do it professionally, they would.

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Speaker 1: What's the greatest pleasure of running AX or running a

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Speaker 1: large multinational, Like, what is the great fun of it?

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Speaker 4: So, first of all, it's great to work with so

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Speaker 4: many motivated people. Yes, you say it's difficult to get

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Speaker 4: good people, but we have good people and it's a

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Speaker 4: pleasure to work with them. Secondly, an insurer looks into

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Speaker 4: every industry, so from satellites to crocodile farms to travel insurance.

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Speaker 4: So it's a very broad view, and certainly it is

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Speaker 4: really a place where.

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Speaker 3: You can do good for society.

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Speaker 4: So what I mentioned earlier around our approach on climate

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Speaker 4: change and investing in a different manner and underwriting in

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Speaker 4: a different manner, you can see the change you can

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Speaker 4: make on society.

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Speaker 1: So on the whole, the message you want to give

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Speaker 1: people is access the best insurance company that they should use,

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Speaker 1: and insurance is doing a useful thing for society.

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Speaker 3: Is that your exactly perfect summary, and.

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Speaker 1: No regrets about not going into investment banking, private equity, government,

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Speaker 1: you're happy with what you're doing.

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Speaker 4: I'm very happy with that I'm doing what I'm doing,

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Speaker 4: and since I don't know what the other things are about,

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Speaker 4: I will stay.

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