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Solvency reform a priority for US regulators
20 December 2013US insurance supervision is inefficient and inconsistent, according to the Federal Insurance Office, which has made its long-awaited recommendations for reform. Among its prime targets are solvency regulation, reserving and treatment of captives. Christopher Cundy reports
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RSA to meet rating agencies this week
16 December 2013Insurer says meetings are pre-arranged, not crisis talks
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RSA shares plummet as CEO resigns
13 December 2013Insurer says it needs to further strengthen Irish reserves
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ILS warning added to Eiopa's financial stability report
12 December 2013"Search for yield" behaviour and VIF monetisations under scrutiny too
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Towers Watson's Tricia Guinn: "The insurance industry is becoming increasingly analytical"
27 November 2013Towers Watson's decision to sell its reinsurance brokerage is part of a strategy to capitalise on the increasingly analytical and technical nature of the insurance industry, risk and financial services managing director Tricia Guinn tells Lorna Davies.
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S&P raises outlook on Scor as ERM strengthens
22 November 2013Continues Scor's eight-year unbroken run of positive rating moves
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Italian insurers face credit risk
15 November 2013High percentage of sovereign assets creates vulnerability
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Caution: capital models at work
06 November 2013The prospect of Solvency II led many insurers to spend millions building internal capital models and the time has come to make them work for the business. But basing strategy on a tool that has been developed primarily with compliance in mind is not without risk, as Rob Collinson explains
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S&P upgrades Uniqa
17 October 2013Austrian insurer has improved capital adequacy
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Investors welcome Swiss Re's solvency/hurricane contingent debt
09 October 2013Reinsurer may repeat issuance for other perils