Archive

  • Axa shrugs off low rate gloom

    04 August 2014

    Insurer's economic solvency ratio would remain above 200% if rates dropped 100bps

  • Insurers pressed to flag deviations from standard formula

    01 August 2014

    Eiopa unveils assumptions underlying the default method for calculating Solvency II capital

  • IERM Comment: The space hurricane season is upon us

    31 July 2014

  • Zurich targets small pension funds with simplified longevity hedge

    31 July 2014

    Hedging contract obviates need to exchange collateral

  • Could the ILS market see a dead cat bounce?

    31 July 2014

    The pricing of catastrophe bonds is picking up after a sustained and dramatic slump. But could it just be a summer lull before the action resumes in the autumn? Christopher Cundy asks market observers what they make of the recent trend

  • Scor's strategic decisions await Solvency II model approval

    31 July 2014

    French reinsurer posts steady set of results for first half of 2014

  • Generali reaps benefits of shift to linked products

    31 July 2014

    Linked products' premiums jumped 31.3% overall on the back of a fourfold increase in Italy

  • RenRe's cat reinsurance premiums drop by a third

    30 July 2014

    Soft market tests underwriting discipline

  • UK insurers rush 'own interpretation' of Solvency II rules

    29 July 2014

    The Association of British Insurers has compiled a confidential paper setting out the industry's reading of the Solvency II rules in a number of contentious areas, prompting an update from the regulator saying where they have got it wrong. Hugo Coelho reports

  • Hiscox to shrink reinsurance book further

    29 July 2014

    Lloyd's insurer disinclined "to squeeze the same lemon" as rates hit "unhealthy levels"