Archive

  • Expect more frequent weather extremes, says Allianz director

    28 February 2014

    Omen: Q4 2013 generated the most UK claims in a decade

  • Failure to grasp big data will make insurers uncompetitive

    28 February 2014

    Ace's Andrew Kendrick says big data is an arms race

  • Conning's high-dividend equity strategies aimed at insurers

    27 February 2014

    Strategies said to offer diversification and income preservation

  • RSA's £775m rights issue at core of capital recovery plan

    27 February 2014

    Investments sold and disposals planned as 2013 results disappoint

  • RiskAgility Financial Modeller to replace MoSes

    26 February 2014

    Towers Watson calls it "next-generation" software for life insurers

  • Insurers' models introduce poorly understood risks

    26 February 2014

    Models 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

  • Phoenix Companies hires new CRO

    25 February 2014

    MassMutual executive Mark Griffin joins US life insurer

  • FASB votes to curtail convergence with IASB

    25 February 2014

    Accounting board limits the scope of its project on insurance contracts

  • Hiscox remains cautious on investment risk

    24 February 2014

    Re/insurer reported growth in premiums and profits in 2013

  • Oasis: a threat or a complement to the cat model giants?

    21 February 2014

    A new open-source loss modelling framework, Oasis, is threatening to shake up the catastophe modelling establishment. Jamie Bullen asks insurers, scientists and cat modellers how they see it developing