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Bermuda rewrites the rulebook
27 September 2023The BMA's regulatory revamp for the island's insurance industry is set for liftoff. It could remove one of the key advantages insurers have sought setting up there, as Sarfraz Thind reports
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Reinsurers expand their risk radars, but usual suspects aren't far away
21 September 2023The emerging risks identified by reinsurers at the annual Rendez-Vous de Septembre (RVS) event included some familiar foes and new additions, but all are being targeted with confidence. Paul Walsh reports
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RVS 2023: reinsurers turn a corner en route to Monte Carlo
08 September 2023The annual Rendez-Vous de Septembre (RVS) event begins this weekend in Monte Carlo and reinsurers enter the glitzy surroundings on strong foundations following last year's turbulence, as Paul Walsh reports
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Rethinking our relationship with catastrophe models
14 August 2023Catastrophe models provide insights for underwriters and risk managers about how to price re/insurance and manage accumulation risk. But the relationship is fraught with some fundamental problems that Tom Philp wants to solve, as he explains to Christopher Cundy
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Germany faces up to climate protection gap
20 July 2023Germans agree they faced climate change front-on when storm Bernd hit in 2021. Two years on, they are somewhat less united on exactly how best to respond. David Walker reports
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The sky's the limit for "extremely hectic" PRT market
10 July 2023Pension risk transfer (PRT) experts say markets in the UK, US and the Netherlands will continue to soar - but there are factors that may help or hinder growth, as Paul Walsh reports
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Lapse risk and capital management strategies: rewriting the script
04 July 2023Mass lapse risk has returned to haunt European life insurers, prompted a rethink of the approach to risk and capital management, as Luca Tres explains in the second of this two-part series
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Lapse risk and capital management strategies: back in the spotlight
27 June 2023Mass lapse risk has returned to haunt European life insurers, prompted a rethink of the approach to risk and capital management, as Luca Tres explains in the first of this two-part series
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Mass policy surrenders remain a blight on Europe's life insurers
20 June 2023But reinsurers are stepping in to help manage lapse risk, and the EU's insurance chief is sanguine about the threat, as Christopher Cundy and Joshua Geer report
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IFRS 17: simplifying accounting for multi-year reinsurance contracts
22 May 2023There are circumstances in which the Premium Allocation Approach can be used for multi-year reinsurance contracts, as Milena Lacheta explains