Archive

  • Hiscox chief slams reporting burden, SII internal models

    14 February 2013

    Global regulations are misguided, says Masojada

  • Insurance enterprise risk managment: the state it's in

    14 February 2013

    Insurers' satisfaction with ERM grows, but plans for using economic capital stall - these are among the seven key findings from Towers Watson's recent worldwide survey. Christopher Cundy asks Laura Santori and Martin Pike to explain

  • Contingent capital "shows promise" as cushion for stressed firms

    14 February 2013

    CAS paper provides pricing and valuation models

  • Prudential head backs Singapore

    14 February 2013

    But UK is "not such a bad place to be," says Thiam

  • Axa draws up ESG framework for sovereign debt

    12 February 2013

    Environmental, social and governance indicators linked to bond performance

  • Regulations put insurers "at risk of irrelevance"

    12 February 2013

    Inability to create reliable pension products puts burden on governments

  • URS adds cloud capability to Risk Explorer

    12 February 2013

    Seven-hour model run times reduced to five minutes

  • Brazil's insurers see benefits of ERM

    05 February 2013

    Enterprise risk management could help insurers in Brazil as they strive for increased capital efficiency in a climate of decreasing returns from financial assets, higher regulatory, risk-based, capital requirements and growing competition. Nuno Vieira explains

  • Singapore consults on insurers' public disclosures

    01 February 2013

    ERM framework and capital adequacy to be included

  • Searching for the right proxy approaches to life

    29 January 2013

    Care has to be taken in using replicating portfolio techniques, least-squares Monte Carlo approaches and curve fitting for estimating the risk capital of a life insurer, as Tigran Kalberer and Zeljko Strkalj explain