Analysis

• Spelling out concerns with IFRS 17 reinsurance accounting

  22 August 2019

  The IASB has revised the insurance contracts accounting standard to minimise mismatches in reinsurance accounting. This may be good news for primary firms and reinsurers, but other challenges remain, as Cintia Cheong reports

  

• Stephen Catlin and Paul Brand: how we’re going to challenge the status quo

  20 August 2019

  A new re/insurer enters the business at a time when rates are hardening for the first time in years. But what can Convex do differently to the incumbents? Sarfraz Thind talks to the founders to find out

  

• How to avert the big data threat

  15 August 2019

  Big data analytics promises to revolutionise risk selection for insurers, but threatens to marginalise higher-risk groups. Paul Walsh investigates how the “solidarity monitor” devised by the Dutch insurance association can help avoid exclusion

  

• Mortality reserving windfalls: a reversal of fortune?

  13 August 2019

  UK life insurers have enjoyed several years of unexpected profits thanks to the slowdown of mortality improvements, but recent statistics hint this trend may be about to reverse. Cintia Cheong reports

  

• Solvency II's biggest unintended consequences

  08 August 2019

  In part two of a Q&A to accompany the launch of his book on Solvency II, Karel Van Hulle discusses the impact of the directive, and how the insurance sector should prepare for sustainability, Brexit and new technologies

  

• Liquidity risk management for life insurers

  06 August 2019

  Managing liquidity requires a different approach from managing capital and must often be considered over different, typically much shorter, time periods – as consultants at Milliman explain

  

• Karel Van Hulle: "I want the objectives of Solvency II to be remembered"

  01 August 2019

  As a former head of insurance and pensions at the European Commission, Karel Van Hulle was central to the development of Solvency II. To coincide with the launch of his book on the directive, he talks to Christopher Cundy about its gestation, flaws and future development

  

• Implementing IFRS 17 discount curves: theoretical and practical challenges

  30 July 2019

  Insurers will have to develop their own assumptions around discount rates under IFRS 17, which will re-open some old debates around incorporating the illiquidity premium. Steven Morrison explains.

  

• Canopius: looking east and west for growth

  25 July 2019

  This year's deals involving AmTrust and Samsung have given the 16-year-old Lloyd's operation a fresh impetus, as chairman Michael Watson explains to David Walker

  

• Dive In 2019: catching up on diversity and inclusion

  23 July 2019

  The insurance industry was heavily criticised during last year's Dive In festival for its poor approach to diversity and inclusion. Nearly twelve months on, Paul Walsh finds the sector is beginning to listen.