Archive

  • IFRS 17 earnings recognition: challenges, opportunities and innovations

    21 June 2018

    Luca Tres and Adam Robinson discuss IFRS 17 and its earning recognition criteria from a capital markets and insurance practitioner's perspective, and consider the challenges and the opportunities this presents

  • SFCRs: "We're not sure any policyholders read them"

    06 June 2018

    Insurers say their solvency and financial condition reports (SFCRs) are barely read by customers, so how should they evolve to better suit their audience? Christopher Cundy reports on this and other views and experiences with the public Solvency II document

  • Emerging risks: cyber still top, environment rising

    27 April 2018

    Max Rudolph discusses the findings of the North American actuarial societies' 11th annual survey of emerging risks with Christopher Cundy

  • Solving Solvency II's proportionality riddle

    06 April 2018

    Smaller insurers have long complained about the burden of complying with Solvency II, but balancing proportionality with proper supervision continues to be debated. Aggelos Andreou reports

  • Axa's Christian Thimann: EU's sustainability drive directly linked to Solvency II reform

    08 February 2018

    The chair of the European Commission's expert group on sustainable finance talks to Paul Walsh about the group's recommendations – and how they are intrinsically linked with Solvency II.

  • The PRA's David Rule on Brexit, the risk margin and the regulator's hotspots for supervision in 2018

    31 January 2018

    The UK's executive director for insurance supervision talks to Christopher Cundy about how the Prudential Regulation Authority is approaching Brexit and reveals the latest views on reforming the risk margin

  • Zurich's Alison Martin: economic risk should be higher up the agenda

    23 January 2018

    Following the publication of the World Economic Forum's Global Risks Report, Christopher Cundy spoke with Zurich's chief risk officer Alison Martin to discuss the findings and reflect on the implications for risk managers

  • Finalists announced for InsuranceERM Awards

    21 December 2017

    See which companies, teams and individuals have made the shortlist for this year's awards for risk and capital management

  • Eiopa's Fausto Parente: convergence is the remedy for regulatory arbitrage

    21 November 2017

    The executive director of the EU's insurance authority discusses its new powers, Brexit, supervisory convergence, insurtech and sustainability in this interview with Christopher Cundy

  • NN's Jan-Hendrik Erasmus: "the key issue is how to embrace technology"

    26 October 2017

    NN Group's chief risk officer discusses with David Walker how the Dutch insurer is positioned for M&A, why Solvency II does not need to change, longevity risk hedging and today's technology and cyber challenges