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South Korea's insurers to assess strategies following K-ICS implementation

Less than half of firms using transitional measures to ease introduction of capital rules

Lapse risk and capital management strategies: rewriting the script

Mass lapse risk has returned to haunt European life insurers, prompted a rethink of the approach to risk and capital management, as Luca Tres explains in the second of this two-part series

Lapse risk and capital management strategies: back in the spotlight

Mass lapse risk has returned to haunt European life insurers, prompted a rethink of the approach to risk and capital management, as Luca Tres explains in the first of this two-part series

Mass policy surrenders remain a blight on Europe's life insurers

But reinsurers are stepping in to help manage lapse risk, and the EU's insurance chief is sanguine about the threat, as Christopher Cundy and Joshua Geer report

Generali snaps up Liberty Seguros in €2.3bn deal

RGA eyes pension risk transfer and Asian markets as top growth opportunities

US life and health reinsurer looking to alternative capital to finance growth

PRA stresses risks of funded reinsurance for UK's bulk annuity writers

Charlotte Gerken has written to chief risk officers explaining the regulator's next steps

Manulife appoints Halina von dem Hagen as its global CRO

She was previously the Canadian life and health insurer's global treasurer and head of capital management

Inflation risk: not going away, still uncertain

The UK might have passed its peak inflation rate, but that doesn't mean inflation is a historic risk, as Ronan McCaughey reports from the Institute and Faculty of Actuaries' Spring conference

African risk landscape puts risk management capabilities to the test, says AM Best

The continent's re/insurers are facing heightened macroeconomic challenges