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Bermuda rewrites the rulebook

The BMA's regulatory revamp for the island's insurance industry is set for liftoff. It could remove one of the key advantages insurers have sought setting up there, as Sarfraz Thind reports

Why insurers do ERM

What objectives do insurers have when they establish their enterprise risk management programmes? Dave Ingram polled the industry and shares his results

M&G re-enters annuity market with two bulk deals

Life insurer hits limits on tier 2 and tier 3 debt in Solvency II calculations

RVS 2023: Hannover Re prioritising longevity and reliability in capital allocation

Sven Althoff said the firm talks "decades, not 12 months" when allocating capital

Beazley switches capital metrics as global growth continues

Speciality re/insurer to use Solvency II rather than Lloyd's ECR

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