Archive

  • Insurers' investment strategies at stake in LTG proposals

    30 January 2013

    Industry should take opportunity to give feedback, says Towers Watson

  • Searching for the right proxy approaches to life

    29 January 2013

    Care has to be taken in using replicating portfolio techniques, least-squares Monte Carlo approaches and curve fitting for estimating the risk capital of a life insurer, as Tigran Kalberer and Zeljko Strkalj explain

  • Learning from Japan's 'lost decades'

    24 January 2013

    With much of Europe mired in a deepening recession, the parallels with Japan's 'lost decades' become ever more acute. Paul Fulcher and Teoman Kaplan explore whether European insurers can learn from their Japanese peers in how to deal with a prolonged state of stagnant economic growth and low interest rates

  • The US ORSA will benefit ERM, say majority of P/C insurers

    24 January 2013

    But Towers Watson survey also shows 21% see ORSA as compliance-driven

  • Skilled people leaving banking for insurance

    21 January 2013

    Optimism and profitability also up for UK life and general insurance, PwC and CBI survey finds

  • Generali targets solid capital for 2015

    15 January 2013

    Part of CEO's "revolution" for insurer

  • Attractive reinsurance opportunities after January renewals

    03 January 2013

    Reinsurance market proved its value, says Aspen

  • Reserve redundancies will dry up next year

    03 January 2013

    Stable pricing and plenty of capital at January renewals, says Guy Carpenter

  • Rates stable for 1 January renewals

    02 January 2013

    Reinsurers cleared Sandy hurdle, says Willis Re

  • EU and US release convergence plan

    24 December 2012

    Five-year plan includes fully risk-based capital requirements