Longevity/mortality Buy-Ins, Buy-Outs, Longevity Bonds, Pandemics
News
Just Group "stronger and safer" after de-risking moves
UK life insurer completes a third NNEG hedge and sells equity-release mortgages
Christmas week registers 51% more Covid-19 deaths than expected
UK has 75,000 excess deaths since pandemic outbreak, according to CMI actuaries
CRO Forum warns insurers of major socio-demographic changes
Insurers are advised to rethink their value propositions for a very different world in 2050
UK bulk annuity market set to stay at £30bn in 2021
Willis Towers Watson said the market has been resilient despite the Covid-19 pandemic
Covid-19 drives CMI to recalibrate 2020 mortality projections
This year is likely to be an outlier, say actuaries
Ten steps on how to win an InsuranceERM Award
Deadline for entries is Friday 11 December
COMMENT: Never say never again
Ronan McCaughey reflects on 2020 and what action points insurers can take from the year
News in brief: Pacific Life Re and Scottish Widows PRT deals
A short summary of this week's major pension risk transfer deals
Q3 mortality rise in Germany not down to Covid-19, statistics office says
Case in August/September was very different to 10% pandemic-related spike in April
UK death rates back above expected levels
"Excess mortality" returns due to second wave of Covid-19
Analysis
Germany's interest rate reserve gets bigger - and better
German life insurers paid more into the Zinszusatzreserve again in 2020, despite the new "corridor method" of calculation that intended to unburden the sector. Industry leaders tell David Walker the ZZR remains fit for purpose nonetheless
The politics of pandemics
Combatting the next pandemic will take a lot more than vaccines, according to Frank Schiller, a board member of Germany's actuarial association. To cover the risk, insurers will need a deft understanding and the ability to work closely with the political world, as Schiller explains to David Walker
Covid-19 mitigation in the US: compliance drops, virus rages
In a follow-up to his article on applying ERM expertise to limit the spread of Covid-19, Dave Ingram reports on adherence to mitigation requirements in November, including for the key Thanksgiving holiday
Insurers urged to 'think the unthinkable' post-Covid-19
Experts at the Insurance Risk & Capital EMEA virtual conference reflect on the lessons insurers have learnt from the Covid-19 pandemic. Ronan McCaughey explains
PRT expansion to drive L&G's dividend growth plan
Christopher Cundy reports from Legal & General's (L&G) investor day, where the insurer revealed new targets for its dividend, bulk annuity underwriting and investments
Taking a new direction in life
China Taiping Insurance Singapore, a long-established non-life insurer, has taken the rare step of diversifying into life business. David Walker talks to the man leading the move, Lance Tay