Capital management

  • UK's "dynamic" general insurance stress test will assess real-time reactions to events

    15 July 2024

    Firms will be handed a sequence of stresses over three weeks in May 2025

  • Countries to begin assessing Insurance Capital Standard implementation in 2026 - UPDATED

    28 June 2024

    Latest version of ICS published ahead of finalisation later this year

  • ASR eyes €8bn of Dutch PRT business in next four years

    27 June 2024

    Estimates 40pp increase in solvency ratio from measures including internal model

  • Prudential to return $2bn of capital after rating agencies clarify IFRS 17 position

    24 June 2024

    Moody's confirms half of CSM included in leverage ratio

  • R&Q turns to alternative transaction structure as it looks to seal Accredited sale

    19 June 2024

    Files for provisional liquidation and suspends trading of shares

  • Solvency UK reform expected to impact insurers' model governance most

    18 June 2024

    Results from Grant Thornton's 2024 general insurance capital modelling survey

  • EU's Solvency II reforms could free up to €80bn of capital, S&P estimates

    12 June 2024

    Insurance sector's solvency ratios to benefit by up to 25 percentage points in aggregate

  • L&G slims down to three divisions

    12 June 2024

    CEO António Simões announces strategy for "simpler, more synergistic and capital light" group

  • Eiopa reveals near-€500bn growth in industry eligible own funds under Solvency II

    07 June 2024

    Rate of growth is almost double expansion of capital requirement since Q3 2016

  • Grant Thornton: AI shunned by general insurers for capital modelling

    23 May 2024

    Igloo was cited as the most popular platform for capital modelling by UK non-life insurers

  • Lloyd's US general liability book concerns "not just noise", says market chief

    16 May 2024

    Patrick Tiernan described the situation surrounding the line as "sub-optimal"

  • IFoA taskforce flags impact of MA attestation reporting inconsistencies

    15 May 2024

    The matching adjustment reforms in the UK are due to become effective by 30 June

  • South Korean insurers' solvency ratios improve under transitional measures

    14 May 2024

    The regulatory capital the industry required under KIC-S rules decreased by KRW 4.1trn

  • Wesleyan names James Needham as chief actuary

    07 May 2024
  • EU authorities forecast challenging outlook for insurers in 2024

    01 May 2024