The January issue ofBest’s Review looks at what worked for in-person events in 2021 and what organizers are doing to prepare for them in 2022 in the following articles:

  • The photo essay, “We Meet Again: Insurers Return to the Public Space,” shows the Wholesale & Specialty Insurance Association’s in-person Annual Marketplace last November, which drew its second-highest turnout ever.
  • In “Welcome Back: Conference Leaders See a Cautious Return to In-Person Events,” Risk and Insurance Management Society (RIMS) leaders discuss the success of the organization’s recent in-person event and what to expect for the upcoming RIMS annual conference in April. This article also includes a listing of popular insurance events for 2022.

Also included in the January issue:

  • In “In Innovation, It's Not the Most Obvious Changes That Make the Biggest Impacts,” Best’s Review spoke with industry leaders about the innovations that laid the groundwork for today’s advances.
  • “Embedded Insurance Gaining Steam as Insurers Build Distribution Partnerships” examines the rise of embedded insurance and why insurers are building partnerships to expand this business market.
  • Insurtech veteran Caribou Honig and Ilya Bodner, the founder of Bold Penguin, discuss insurtech strategy in “An Entrepreneur’s Story: Caribou Honig's Questions for Ilya Bodner of Bold Penguin.”
  • “Life Insurers Not Free of COVID-19 Yet, as Virus Impacts Younger Populations” looks at how a mix of investment gains and business diversification across segments could help ameliorate potential costs from the delta variant as it pushes up the number of pandemic-related deaths for working-age people in the United States.

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