Archive

• Guy Carpenter and Symantec to build cyber aggregation model

  17 May 2016

  Strategic alliance formed to help re/insurers better understand correlated cyber risks

• NAIC meeting roundup: PBR in the pocket, cyber in a mess

  15 April 2016

  State insurance commissioners have taken stock of their efforts to steal a march on federal authorities during their spring get together in New Orleans. Hugo Coelho reports

• US financial watchdog slams slow adoption of Sifi capital surcharge

  17 December 2015

  Life insurers are among the most systemic financial institutions

• Generali's Solvency II ratio up 14 points

  30 July 2015

  Italian insurer awaiting partial Solvency II internal model approval

• Liberty Specialty Markets creates CRO position

  26 January 2015

  Arch's Fullerton-Rome appointed to the role

• Willis Re launches Japan tsunami model

  03 December 2014

  Incorporates data from 2011 disaster

• Low interest rates spell earnings problems for EU life sector

  16 June 2014

  But situation not as dire as Japan in the 1990s says Bernstein

• Sidecars suck in record amount of capital in Q1

  28 May 2014

  But one sidecar alone accounted for bulk of investment

• Zurich reports 15% profit hike

  13 February 2014

  Combined ratio also improves to 95.5%

• New capital muscles into the reinsurance business

  12 July 2013

  Hedge funds, pension funds and wealth managers are among the newer investors reshaping the way that reinsurance operates and prices risk. These non-traditional investors like the returns available and the lack of correlation with other capital markets. But do they fully appreciate the risks? Sarfraz Thind reports