Archive

  • Zurich collaborates on flood resilience research

    25 July 2013

    Enters multi-year collaboration with US and Austrian academics

  • European flood losses surpass $1.6bn

    16 July 2013

    Partner Re is latest to report impact

  • G-SII "backstop capital" a springboard to global capital standard

    11 July 2013

    Zurich CEO says fragmented capital rules are intolerable in the long term

  • Low interest rates challenge regulators as well as insurers

    05 July 2013

    Current economic policies are creating market distortions that insurers and their regulators should tackle sooner rather than later, says Daniel Hofmann, advisor to the chairman of Zurich Insurance Group

  • Emerging risks test re/insurers' monitoring systems

    28 June 2013

    In an ever more complex, interconnected and fast-moving world, the task of spotting the emerging risks that could have critical impacts on insurance companies is becoming harder. Christopher Cundy reports on how firms are tackling the issue

  • Zurich, Aon see opportunity in ageing US population

    13 May 2013

    Offering commercial insurance to non-profit long-term care groups

  • On the road to common standards for group capital

    24 April 2013

    A recent Geneva Association report revealed some surprises in the capital management of global insurance groups - and a reluctance to rush towards global standards. Co-author Kathrin Hoppe explains to Christopher Cundy

  • ORSA is biggest challenge for North American CROs

    25 March 2013

    Economic capital also set to occupy CROs, E&Y survey finds

  • Generali strengthens capital

    14 March 2013

    But net profit down on impairments

  • Most US insurers lack climate change strategy

    08 March 2013

    Ceres analysis of 184 insurers finds many are unprepared for climate change