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SST raises awareness of asset risk
17 March 2014But the regulation is positive for Swiss insurers, says Fitch
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Understanding Solvency II's new transitional measures
13 March 2014Solvency II may have an official implementation date of 1 January 2016, but insurers are being given years to get their house in order. Alison Matthews outlines the key transitional provisions recently introduced to the legislation, focusing on the tricky question of equivalence
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Amlin's internal model helps cut reinsurance spend
03 March 2014Profits rise, but re/insurer under pressure from lower cat reinsurance rates
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RiskAgility Financial Modeller to replace MoSes
26 February 2014Towers Watson calls it "next-generation" software for life insurers
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Insurers' models introduce poorly understood risks
26 February 2014Models have become indispensable to managing a modern re/insurer, but their use is creating new risks that are not well understood. Christopher Cundy speaks to the insurer and the academic who are leading a major project to study the systemic risks in modelling
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Actuarial paper at centre of health data storm
25 February 2014UK health records may be inaccessible to actuaries in future
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Moody's Analytics claims credit modelling first
18 February 2014RiskFrontier 4.0 enables "bottom-up" consideration of credit and interest rate risk for the first time
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Praedicat launches liability risk modelling software
11 February 2014CoMeta models emerging risks to help insurers spot "the next asbestos"
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Raising the standard of internal model governance
05 February 2014Internal models are increasingly used for decision making and producing figures for financial reports, but model governance procedures have not kept pace with these changing demands. Dominic Rau and Christian Wegmann outline a framework for improving assurance
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Oasis launches open source cat modelling software
29 January 2014Framework is backed by 21 re/insurers and brokers