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How the matching adjustment helps insurers in a crisis
28 February 2013Daily solvency monitoring offers valuable insights into an insurers' risk profile and its regulatory capital requirements – and demonstrates the potential power of the matching adjustment. Matthew Cocke, Russell Osman and Russell Ward explain
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Negative outlook for French life insurance
28 February 2013Insurers may be asked to contribute to public deficit reduction efforts again, says Moody's
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LLMA and IFoA to develop longevity basis risk benchmark
28 February 2013Research will facilitate transfer of longevity risk to capital markets
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Third of all tornado deaths in mobile homes
28 February 2013Modelling the risk is becoming more important, says Lloyd's
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Mercer launches US pension buy-out pricing index
28 February 2013Interest in bulk annuity deals expected to rise
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Solvency II delay "golden opportunity" to sort out run-off and APH
27 February 2013European insurers have potential to be over-reserved compared to US, says Ruxley
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US insurers to hold $23bn more capital if ratings agency revises model
27 February 2013AM Best proposes lowering discount rate for non-life reserves from 5% to 4%
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ABI lends support to Aon's flood pool
27 February 2013UK insurers would pay a levy into Flood Re
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Cat modellers set out their platforms
26 February 2013For Eqecat, AIR and RMS, the future is platforms and the promise to give clients more model transparency and control. Open-architecture initiatives such as Oasis are also gearing up. Lorna Davies details the developments
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Japan equivalence shelved after SII delays
26 February 2013JFSA still working on new solvency regime