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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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US Aggregation Method framework ready for launch
06 July 2023The wheels are in motion to fix the Aggregation Method for the US and for once everyone seems happy. Gary Anderson, commissioner of the Massachusetts Division of Insurance, talks about the process towards one global capital standard
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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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Petra Hielkema discusses sustainability in Solvency II, transition plans and greenwashing
29 June 2023The chair of the European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Authority sits down with Joshua Geer to share her views on how sustainability can be implemented in Solvency II, why she is not pushing for transition plans and the regulatory scope for greenwashing
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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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CRO of the year Americas: Pooja Rahman, Protective Life Corporation
23 June 2023Pooja Rahman won chief risk officer of the year in InsuranceERM's 2023 annual Americas awards. She tells Ronan McCaughey how her risk team at Protective Life Corporation adds value, as well as discussing artificial intelligence and ChatGPT
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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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Divergent views and rising rates cool progress on EU's Solvency II reforms
16 June 2023One year has passed since the European Parliament's Econ committee issued its draft text on the Solvency II reforms. Joshua Geer and Christopher Cundy investigate why the agenda has not progressed - and when a breakthrough might occur
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Retail investor strategy and insurance: watch what's flying under the radar
12 June 2023The European Commission's proposals to reform retail investment rules have implications for insurers - and some of the most important consequences are not obvious, as Carlos Montalvo explains
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Insurers' TCFD reporting: differences, similarities and highlights
08 June 2023Now that many insurers have released their Taskforce on Climate-related Financial Disclosure reporting for the year, Joshua Geer compares the results and picks out highlights across the four pillars of the framework
- "Unprecedented" tariff shock could trigger stagflation and insurance market disruption
- US RBC modernisation: what to expect from the capital rule review
- Swiss Re to co-manage GAM's cat bond and ILS funds
- Trump tariffs: life insurers should weigh up benefits of further hedging
- Eiopa launches next batch of Solvency II review consultations
- Climate and Sustainability Roundup: Implications of EU's decision to pause sustainability rules
- Athora Netherlands wraps up €950m PRT deal with Nedlloyd Pension Fund
- PRA unveils matching adjustment investment accelerator proposals
- German government pledges mandatory natcat cover in official coalition agreement
- AI could shift insurance capital allocation, says Bank of England