Archive

  • India sets out its vision as a reinsurance hub

    10 January 2019

    Regulator states goal despite unprofitability of many foreign players

  • Blockchain initiative B3i launches testing programme with 23 new members

    02 October 2017

    Re/insurers and brokers test distributed ledger technology

  • Gen Re's Jules Constantinou: technology can make insurance more meaningful

    03 August 2017

    Jules Constantinou, regional manager for life and health at GenRe UK and Ireland, and president-elect of the Institute and Faculty of Actuaries, vows to make insurance more meaningful to society. He tells Cintia Cheong how technology can help achieve that

  • Insurers should not be liable when vehicles are used as weapons of terror

    19 June 2017

    Terrorism claims should be handled at national level, says Gen Re

  • Gen Re hires chief actuary for life & health North America

    23 May 2017

    William Casill joins from Axa Equitable

  • Insights into an evolving ERM process

    09 May 2017

    Janice Englesbe explains how Gen Re has changed its approach to enterprise risk management following the completion of its first ORSA in 2015

  • Half of L&H insurers have 'no immediate plans' to use predictive analytics

    06 April 2017

    Still regarded as an innovation despite wide usage outside of the insurance industry

  • Gen Re actuary to become IFoA president in 2018

    29 March 2017

    Jules Constantinou will replace Marjorie Ngwenya

  • Solvency II ratios mask real default risk

    14 September 2016

    Gen Re actuary says bigger solvency surplus doesn't mean lower chance of default

  • Reinsurers renew lobbying efforts to avoid G-Sii designation

    09 August 2016

    A move from quantitative to qualitative indicators of global systemic risk is threatening to make the designation process more opaque for reinsurers. Callum Tanner reports