Could Insurance Become Irrelevant?

In this webinar, based on McKinsey's first global insurance report, we tackle some fundamental issues facing the industry that are seldom confronted

This webinar covers:

--Insurers have spent years aggressively consolidating to achieve scale and innovating to improve productivity

-- Without notable success. What is going wrong?

--Many insurers are proceeding cautiously in the face of potentially massive risks such as cyber and extreme weather, to optimize profitability. But could they optimize their way into irrelevance?

--How can insurers finally speed their progress?

Date: June 6, 2022

Time: 1:00 pm EDT

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About the Speakers

Henri de Combles de Nayves

Henri de Combles de Nayves is a partner in McKinsey’s Paris office. He works with Banking, Insurance and Asset Management organizations in Europe. He devotes most of his time to strategy and transformation programs of large French and international companies operating in the banking and insurance sectors. His areas of expertise include business portfolio management, business strategies, governance, distribution networks organization, and wealth and risk management. In addition, he has accompanied major transformation plans, as well as mergers and acquisitions, on behalf of financial institutions. Henri de Combles de Nayves is also actively involved in McKinsey's research initiatives in the banking and insurance sectors. Prior to joining McKinsey in 2012, Henri de Combles de Nayves worked for seven years as an equity derivatives trader at Société Générale. A graduate of Ecole Centrale Paris, Henri also holds an MBA from INSEAD.

Paul Carroll

Paul Carroll is the editor-in-chief of Insurance Thought Leadership.

He is also co-author of A Brief History of a Perfect Future: Inventing the Future We Can Proudly Leave Our Kids by 2050 and Billion Dollar Lessons: What You Can Learn From the Most Inexcusable Business Failures of the Last 25 Years and the author of a best-seller on IBM, published in 1993.

Carroll spent 17 years at the Wall Street Journal as an editor and reporter; he was nominated twice for the Pulitzer Prize. He later was a finalist for a National Magazine Award.