Archive

  • Poste Vita outlines internal model plans

    22 February 2021

    CFO says solvency ratio has been too volatile

  • Zurich chooses worst moment to switch capital target to SST

    11 February 2021

    CFO apologises to analysts for mis-stated Q3 2020 figure

  • Gabriel Bernardino on four important Solvency II reforms

    22 December 2020

    The chair of the European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Authority talks to Christopher Cundy about the main proposals to amend Solvency II and what they hope to achieve

  • Capital modelling best practice for insurers

    16 December 2020

    Peter Antal shared insights during InsuranceERM's Insurance Risk & Capital EMEA virtual conference

  • ICS capital calculations: onerous, uncertain, but growing in relevance

    14 December 2020

    The global Insurance Capital Standard (ICS) requires yet more modelling work for insurers and some of its rules for calculating capital are vague. It's currently a low priority for insurers and investors, but UK firms in particular should watch closely. Christopher Cundy reports

  • The future of UK supervision: more stress testing, more dialogue, less capital modelling

    04 December 2020

    Charlotte Gerken says Bank of England will rely less on internal models to establish regulatory capital

  • Western & Southern's Todd Henderson: a year for living safely

    03 December 2020

    Western & Southern's CRO says he is happy to be boring. Yet the work he has done in 2020 has been anything but. He talks to Sarfraz Thind about negotiating the Covid-19 pandemic and discusses the risks for both underwriting and assets

  • Canada reviews capital rules for segregated fund risk

    27 November 2020

    Draft approach to be presented to insurers in December

  • Cracks in the normal distribution challenge CROs

    09 October 2020

    Covid-19 is changing the way chief risk officers think and work. Eric Clapprood and David Sherwood talk to Sarfraz Thind about why CROs may need to focus on less extreme risks, and how they can adapt to the new normal

  • Eiopa investigates diversification in internal models

    02 October 2020

    UK insurers not expected to participate