Annual Survey Results
The Future of
Insurance
2019 Insights: Technology and Climate Change Creating Today’s Risks and Opportunities
Last year, we surveyed brokers and small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in the U.K. and the U.S. to learn how they perceive the evolving insurance landscape, how they think the changes will affect them and how they plan to respond. The responses highlighted the urgent issues – risks, uncertainty and talent gap – facing the insurance industry.
We relaunched our annual survey to see how their perspectives have changed over the past 12 months. As you will see, the results are largely in line with 2018’s survey responses, but some interesting changes show how the industry is evolving.
Both SMEs and brokers are learning more about the effects that risk areas such as cryptocurrency, autonomous vehicles and climate change are having – and are expected to have – on the industry. We learned more about the societal and human dimensions of insurance in a series of questions introduced in this year’s survey. Also, we revisited the talent gap and learned some of the ways the industry can attract new talent with a broad set of skills and perspectives to help guide us through the innovation and change we face.
Methodology: CoreData Research surveyed brokers and SMEs in both the U.K. and the U.S. to obtain a detailed understanding of their attitudes and opinions about a range of factors that will affect the insurance industry in the future. All interviews were conducted in May and June of 2019.
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