Seen as a whole, the Eikos Group model is highly integrative and ‘mobile’. Eikos aims to be regarded as a critical source or centre of risk management/insurance technology that can be lifted and applied universally, to any organisation in any circumstance.

Central to Eikos’s basic philosophy has always been the development and maintenance of a solid core of Insurance and Finance professionals to facilitate the ongoing provision of pioneering, original and professional service to its target client base. To this end Eikos has staffed itself with the leading practitioners in the fields in which it operates and at the same time has ensured long term succession by recruiting and training young, enthusiastic and committed graduates.

Eikos is therefore well positioned to take advantage of the convergence of financial and insurance markets, and the growing focus of corporations on the discipline of risk management as a managerial/governance activity.

Why is Eikos different? In the past, risk strategies did not generate profit because they focused too narrowly on limiting risk. What sets Eikos apart is that it breaks with the conventional approach of compartmentalised solutions by gaining a clear understanding of the client’s strategic goals and applying innovative integrated solutions.

Risk finance originated in the traditional insurance industry. From ancient times and until fairly recently, insurance was the only form of risk financing. It was through the innovations of the risk financiers of the 1970’s and 1980’s that risk began to be seen as something that could be used to advantage. This development transformed insurance as a discipline. The work that Eikos engages in is challenging the established norms and redefining risk financing mechanisms through the IRIS approach.