Black swans are normally seen as improbable events (the dot-com bubble or 2008 meltdown) affecting the financial industry. But organizations must also consider the black swans that could be swimming among their many risk exposures. “It’s reasonable to expect a…
Since the “black swan” metaphor was coined in the 2007 book of the same name, it has become fashionable to label virtually all low probability/high impact events black swans. But the danger of making an occurrence like the COVID-19 outbreak…
The insurance and reinsurance industry would benefit from paying more attention to “black swan” events, those which are “not anticipated and probably not modelled,” a speaker suggested on Wednesday at the Canadian Insurance Financial Forum (CIFF). “When you look back…