Archive

  • Life insurers' capital needs to rise after bird flu research resumes

    01 February 2013

    Risk of man-made pandemic from avian flu research increased, RMS warns

  • Pushing forward on principles-based reserving

    31 January 2013

    US life insurers may soon be setting their reserves according to principles devised by the NAIC. In a Q&A with InsuranceERM, Julie McPeak, Tennessee insurance commissioner, explains the path ahead

  • Insurers should fight against G-SII plans, says Aviva

    31 January 2013

    Trevor Matthews is latest to weigh in on IAIS risky insurer designation debate

  • FSA sets out ICAS+ plans

    31 January 2013

    UK regulator is working to a Solvency II date of end-2015

  • Eqecat releases new platform RQE v13

    31 January 2013

    Will "disrupt the status quo of catastrophe risk modelling," says firm

  • Insurers' investment strategies at stake in LTG proposals

    30 January 2013

    Industry should take opportunity to give feedback, says Towers Watson

  • BMA will not apply Solvency II-type rules to captives

    30 January 2013

    Bermudian authority lays out plans for the year

  • Oasis roll-out gathers pace

    30 January 2013

    Cat model framework looking for four more players to sign up

  • 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

  • Bonds take bigger slice of UK pension assets

    29 January 2013

    Exceeded equity investments again last year, says NAPF