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Insights on Financial Services

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Women as the next wave of growth in US wealth management

– An unprecedented amount of assets will shift into the hands of US women over the next three to five years, representing a $30 trillion opportunity by the end of the decade.
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Breaking away from the pack in the next normal of retail banking distribution
– Lessons from pre-COVID-19 crisis leaders.
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How COVID-19 has impacted Black-white financial inequality
– COVID-19 has disrupted everything from economic markets to personal finances, but not everyone feels its effects equally.
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How financial institutions can help fill European retirement needs
– Western Europe’s nonpublic retirement market is growing rapidly. To capture the business opportunity, insurers and asset managers should take on three approaches.
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Banking system resilience in the time of COVID-19
– Capital cushions at European, UK, and US banks look adequate in most scenarios—and challenged in others. In either case, they must be rebuilt, and that will require some difficult decisions.
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Financial life during the COVID-19 pandemic—an update
– The COVID-19 pandemic is contracting in some countries while expanding in others, shaping the attitudes and behaviors of financial decision makers.
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European bancassurance: Impact of COVID-19 and the next normal
– As customers and banks accelerate their digital transformation, bancassurers need to move digital to the core.
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The future of private banking in Europe: Preparing for accelerated change
– European private banks were already feeling pressure to revitalize. Now that the pandemic has accelerated changes in the expectations of clients and employees, the industry will need to accelerate its transformation.
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The post-COVID-19 pricing imperative for P&C insurers
– Pricing excellence has always been a prerequisite for value generation, but it will be even more critical as insurers recover from the crisis.

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Digital disruption in insurance: Cutting through the noise
Digital insurance in 2018: Driving real impact with digital and analytics. Highlights from articles this year show the progress... that has been made in reinventing the insurance landscape—and suggest more disruption to come.

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Rewriting the rules: Digital and AI-powered underwriting in life insurance
– COVID-19 reinforces the urgency to make life insurance purchasing simpler and more digitally enabled.
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– An ongoing look at how the attitudes of financial decision makers in Romania are evolving during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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– An ongoing look at how the attitudes of financial decision makers in Canada are evolving during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Improving productivity in a disrupted landscape: How to transform Latin American banking
– Latin American banks have long sought productivity breakthroughs to meet rising customer expectations and the challenge from new,... digital players. COVID-19 is making transformation even more urgent.
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Financial decision-maker sentiment: Greece
– An ongoing look at how the attitudes of financial decision makers in Greece are evolving during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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– An ongoing look at how the attitudes of financial decision makers in Mexico are evolving during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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The next frontier for sustainable growth: Capturing the cost advantage of direct insurance
– Direct insurers in Western Europe are leaner, simpler, and faster than traditional multichannel insurers. Still, they must take... action to fulfill their potential.
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Through-cycle investment in mining
– Mining is notoriously cyclical, with volatile equity prices and investment patterns as a result. As the COVID-19 crisis affects... the medium-term pricing outlook in many commodities and puts pressure on planned investments, mining CFOs have a unique opportunity (and imperative) to review their capital-expansion strategies.
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Transforming the talent model in the insurance industry
– Insurers that succeed in the coming years will be those that recognize talent strategy has the same importance as core business... strategy.
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Reaching the next normal of insurance core technology
– Now more than ever, insurers are focusing on reimagining the role of technology, reinventing technology delivery, and future-proofing... the foundation of core technology. Twelve articles dive deep into the what, why, and how.
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