Analysis

• PRT market set for a blazing H2

  16 August 2022

  The UK's pension risk transfer market (PRT) is on course for a very busy second half of the year, after relatively modest activity in H1. Solvency II reforms are also likely to impact the sector, as Ronan McCaughey explains

  

• Fighting fires in the US

  11 August 2022

  Wildfires are raging once again and insurers are under pressure to maintain coverage in high-risk regions. But the industry can do more to help itself and society as David Sampson, president of the American Property Casualty Insurance Association, explains to Sarfraz Thind

  

• Life back-book consolidators shrug off threat from rising rates

  09 August 2022

  Rising interest rates are unlikely to stop life insurers from selling their legacy liabilities to consolidators, as many other incentives for doing deals remain. David Walker reports

  

• IFRS 17: still waiting for disclosures

  04 August 2022

  The IFRS 17 accounting standard is due to be implemented in five months' time, but many insurers are leaving it until the eleventh hour to reveal what impact the transition will have on their financial metrics. Christopher Cundy and Paul Walsh report

  

• Solvency II in Germany: four insurers below 100% ratio without transitional measures

  28 July 2022

  New analysis from Insurance Risk Data picks up where Eiopa left off, evaluating the use of the long-term guarantees measures in Germany, the EEA country where they are most popular. David Walker reports

  

• The UK's Solvency II reform proposals: reactions summarised

  21 July 2022

  Actuaries, US insurers, environmental campaigners have joined the UK industry in responding to Solvency II reform proposals. Christopher Cundy and David Walker report

  

• Japan steps forward with ICS-based capital framework

  20 July 2022

  Japan is midway through development of a new capital framework that takes its lead from the Insurance Capital Standard. This should make it a beacon for international prudential rules, as the FSA's Shigeru Ariizumi explains to Sarfraz Thind

  

• Czech insurers awaken to digitalisation

  18 July 2022

  Paul Walsh reports from Prague on the opportunities and risks for underwriters in the historically conservative Czech Republic market

  

• R.I.P. traditional life insurance

  11 July 2022

  Low interest rates killed off European life insurance products that offered policyholders guaranteed annual returns. Even now as rates rise, David Walker finds practitioners are ready to bury the concept

  

• Thinking outside the box on emerging risks

  08 July 2022

  Risk professionals may need to deploy more imagination if they are to address the perils that are currently going undetected. Paul Walsh reports