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  • Hiscox profits rise as premiums increase all round

    30 July 2018

    Major reallocation of investment portfolio

  • UK insurers set for "onslaught" of GDPR data requests

    04 May 2018

    EU data protection law comes into effect later this month

  • Soaring disasters hand insurers record natcat costs

    10 April 2018

    Swiss Re finds 2017 as insurers'costliest natcat year ever

  • Planning your IMAP programme

    04 April 2018

    In part two of this feature, Ashish Kwatra and Jennifer (Kang) Khaleghy highlight key areas to consider when planning for internal model approval

  • How to get your Solvency II internal model approved

    27 March 2018

    Ashish Kwatra and Jennifer (Kang) Khaleghy discuss the lessons learnt in applying for regulatory capital models and explain how to manage an effective model approval programme

  • US inland flood risk three times greater than thought, new models find

    12 December 2017

    Scientists estimate 40m citizens and $5.5tr of assets are at danger

  • Innovative risk modelling key to tackling emerging technology risks

    17 October 2017

    The World Economic Forum has called for urgent innovation in risk modelling and said rapid global collaboration is crucial to dealing with the risks from new technology. David Walker reports

  • MA optimisation: the experience at LV=

    06 July 2017

    The matching adjustment (MA) is a vital element of the Solvency II package to annuity underwriters, but making the most of it is challenging. In this article, James Sharpe, developer of optimisation tool OptiMA, and Ed Rayson of insurer LV=, describe how MA benefits have been improved in practice

  • Australian regulators to collect data on life insurance claims

    08 May 2017

    Better claims data is needed to improve public trust, say regulators

  • Reinsurers raise ERM game

    23 August 2016

    Sector is well-equipped to weather strong headwinds, S&P says