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  • Insurers feel the pull of longevity swaps

    13 March 2015

    Three years after Aegon started the market, index-based longevity swaps could become a trend across Europe as insurers seek to optimise their capital under Solvency II. Hugo Coelho reports

  • Prepare for a wave of liability management transactions

    29 January 2015

    Solvency II is the driver, says Twelve Capital

  • HLA is a life jacket in a desert, says de Castries

    04 December 2014

    Axa's chairman urges regulators to rethink tools to tackle systemic risks

  • Moody's: Leverage ratios at lowest level since the crisis

    13 November 2014

    Insurers borrow less as declining earnings make debt servicing onerous

  • FSB puts off designation of systemic reinsurers until 2016

    06 November 2014

    IAIS ordered to revise assessment methodology

  • Insurance reforms to reshape Indonesian market

    04 November 2014

    Firms required to spin-off sharia-units over a decade

  • Insurers welcome equivalence changes

    28 October 2014

    EC provides greater certainty on deduction and aggregation

  • Large insurer capital base set to strengthen

    17 October 2014

    S&P suggests driver uncertainty over global capital standard

  • S&P changes Axa outlook to positive

    16 October 2014

    Highlights strong capital adequacy

  • EU associations set template for Solvency II data exchange

    16 September 2014

    IMA, BVI and Club Ampere prepare table to assist reporting