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  • Stable reinsurance pricing could be short-lived

    09 January 2013

    AM Best warns of unprecedented uncertainties in global economy

  • 2013: the ERM challenges ahead

    08 January 2013

    Leading consultants and CROs say getting the most out of Solvency II implementation will be a big challenge for 2013, but other aspects of ERM will reappear on the agenda, as will the necessity of keeping ERM at the heart of business. Here is a compilation of responses to the questions InsuranceERM asked experts just before Christmas

  • Governments must think like insurers in face of rising risks

    08 January 2013

    Should transfer risks to capital markets, says WEF

  • Regulators and industry carp at IAIS over G-SIIs

    08 January 2013

    Proposals need "substantial refinement", says BaFin

  • IIS names Woodring as next chairman

    04 January 2013

    RGA chief will replace Norman Sorensen

  • Extracting the real value from Solvency II

    27 December 2012

    Insurers will want to move Solvency II development work out of the laboratory, says Guy Carpenter's Andrew Cox

  • Australia beats Europe on regulatory overhaul

    21 December 2012

    Australia has succeeded where Europe has seemingly failed by implementing new solvency capital regulations for insurers in three years – with relatively few delays. The standards will be implemented on 1 January 2013 and follow a broadly similar approach to Solvency II. Lorna Davies reports

  • US nat cats dominate 2012 losses

    19 December 2012

    Swiss Re study predicts $65bn of industry losses this year

  • Conning launches v6.0 of ERM software

    18 December 2012

    Adds FIRM portfolio analysis tool

  • Capital requirements for G-SIIs should be "last resort"

    18 December 2012

    Insurance Europe and IIF respond to consultation on systemically risky insurers