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  • Actuarial paper at centre of health data storm

    25 February 2014

    UK health records may be inaccessible to actuaries in future

  • UK flood insured loss to be "manageable"

    18 February 2014

    Ongoing disaster likely to be a one-off negative for primary insurers

  • FCA dices with actuaries in annuity profits probe

    14 February 2014

    The UK's Financial Conduct Authority wants to make the annuity markets more competitive, but tackling excess profitability and price differentiation may be a bigger challenge than it thinks. Christopher Cundy reports

  • Cincinnati Insurance places $100m private cat bond

    14 February 2014

    The three-year note provides cover against earthquakes and storms

  • Praedicat launches liability risk modelling software

    11 February 2014

    CoMeta models emerging risks to help insurers spot "the next asbestos"

  • Leonardi blasts "reckless" timetable for global capital standards

    05 February 2014

    US House subcommittee grills Connecticut commissioner and FIO chief McRaith

  • 2013 nat cat insured losses 45% below average

    07 January 2014

    Only $31bn of insured losses arose from natural catastrophes last year, says Munich Re

  • Guy Carpenter calculates new reinsurance capital figure

    06 January 2014

    Estimates reinsurers held $322bn at year end

  • Scor launches Atlas X sidecar

    06 January 2014

    The sidecar will provide $55.5m capacity for property cat business

  • Soft January reinsurance rates caused by overcapacity

    03 January 2014

    US property catastrophe renewal rates most affected, says Willis Re