Archive

  • PRA sets triggers for recalculating the SII transitional

    18 April 2016

    Dynamic transitional benefit leave firms with "very trick hedging issue"

  • PRA draws red line on longevity risk deals

    18 February 2016

    Regulator points to collateralisation to mitigate counterparty risk

  • Life insurers stuck with the riddle of the risk margin

    01 December 2015

    Of all the innovations of Solvency II, the risk margin threatens to be the most painful for UK life insurers. The transitional benefit will provide relief against it on 1 January, but in the long run it may do more harm than good. Hugo Coelho reports

  • IAIS consults on G-Sii designations and NTNI

    27 November 2015

    New methodology should allow regulators to add reinsurers to G-Sii list in 2016

  • NN could enter Solvency II without internal model

    19 November 2015

    Dutch insurance group discloses solvency under standard formula

  • Woods gives reasons to revise risk margin's formula

    03 November 2015

    Flat 6% cost of capital makes buffer overly sensitive to movements in risk-free rates

  • Aegon designated as too-big-to-fail insurer

    03 November 2015

    Italian insurance group Generali out of G-Sii list

  • InsuranceERM's Technology Guide 2015/16 now live

    22 October 2015

    The most complete guide to risk and capital management software for insurers

  • Asset managers need to refocus their Solvency II services

    16 October 2015

    Insurer clients need to trust in data, says MBE International

  • "The HLA creates more instability than it subtracts" – Axa's Thimann

    13 October 2015

    Christian Thimann, head of public of affairs at France's largest insurance group, is critical of regulators' plans to tackle systemic risk in the insurance sector. He talks to Hugo Coelho