Archive

  • Reinsurance pricing set to rise in 2018, but not by much

    30 November 2017

    Increases by up to 10% globally, US expected to be slightly higher

  • Dutch insurer completes index-based longevity hedge

    30 November 2017

    Protects against longevity trend risk in €3bn of liabilities

  • Decision to cut nat cat reinsurance vindicated despite big bill, says Hannover Re

    08 November 2017

    But hurricanes and earthquakes still raised combined ratio to 104.4%

  • Philippines government cedes cat risks to global reinsurers

    16 August 2017

    The new initiative provides the country with $206m in coverage from typhoons and earthquakes

  • German life companies' thirst to optimise solvency boosts Hannover Re

    10 August 2017

    Reinsurer predicts little change in UK client relationships post-Brexit as companies migrate to continent

  • Solvency II capital benefit from diversification surprises equity analysts

    04 July 2017

    Pure-play firms gain as much multi-line groups

  • Insurers use home languages for their SFCRs - but Latin was a mistake

    22 May 2017

    Two published solvency and financial condition reports (SFCRs) contained dummy text in Latin

  • Vienna Insurance Group adopts pictorial approach in SFCR

    17 May 2017

    Underwriter charts difference between model types

  • Analysts seek help from Generali on evaluating SFCR content

    15 May 2017

    The underwriter is establishing a central contact point to explain Solvency II documents

  • 19 May will be D-Day for insurers' Solvency II reporting

    12 May 2017

    Europe's underwriters delaying publishing documents until last minute