The COVID-19 pandemic brought to light the volatility of the global supply chain.
It also highlighted that companies are not prepared for grey swan events, those which are unlikely to occur but can wreak havoc when they do.
Aon helps businesses minimize the risk of supply chain disruptions through its overall business and professional services.
One day, when the pandemic is long over, people will be free to reminisce about March 2020 and its empty toilet paper shelves, impossible-to-find flour, and out-of-control lumber prices. It was in that month that people started understanding just how global and intertwined supply chains had become and that when links break in this case because of a worldwide lockdown that made it difficult to create and ship goods the entire system falls apart.
Operator
Good morning, and welcome to RE/MAX Holdings First Quarter 2021 Earnings Conference Call and Webcast. My name is Megan, and I will be facilitating the audio portion of today s call. [Operator Instructions]
At this time, I would like to turn the call over to Andy Schulz, Senior Vice President of Investor Relations, Mr. Schulz?
Andy Schulz
Senior Vice President, Investor Relations
Thank you, operator. Good morning, everyone, and welcome to RE/MAX Holdings First Quarter 2021 Earnings Conference Call. Please visit the Investor Relations page of remax.com for all earnings related materials and to access the live webcast and the replay of the call today. If you are participating through the webcast, please note that you will need to advance the slides as we move through the presentation. Turning to Slide two. Our prepared remarks and answers to your questions on today s call may contain forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements include those related to agent c
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Insurance Companies Show a ‘Risk On’ Approach to Investing
Companies surveyed by GSAM are looking to invest in private equity and illiquid asset classes; DB plans might be interested in insurance companies’ views since they face some of the same risks as insurers.
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Goldman Sachs Asset Management (GSAM) has released its 10th annual Insurance Survey, which polled mostly larger firms in the insurance industry. Responses were collected from 286 firms representing $13 trillion in assets under management (AUM), or what GSAM says it thinks is more than half of industry assets.
Mike Siegel, global head of insurance asset management at GSAM, said during a GSAM roundtable that this year’s survey took a big turn toward a “risk on” attitude. “We haven’t had these kinds of readings since after the last recession when insurance companies re-risked,” he said. “Insurers face equity risk, credit risk, interest rate or duration risk, and liquidity risk.”
An Insurtech study claims that consumers are demanding more digital services from their insurance companies.
The study is part of the
2020 DXC Insurance Survey Report: The Voice of the US Consumer and highlights how consumer demand creates opportunities for insurers to deploy customer-facing digital technologies across their organisations.
Digital transformation by insurers will not only help them “gain market share and boost lifetime customer value” but also assert themselves as “exemplars of a new, more collaborative concept of the insurer-policyholder relationship”, according to DXC Technology.
DXC developed the survey to help insurers transform their business models and compete in a “changing, more consumer-focused market”.