Analysis

• Emerging risks: cyber still top, environment rising

  27 April 2018

  Max Rudolph discusses the findings of the North American actuarial societies' 11th annual survey of emerging risks with Christopher Cundy

  

• Lloyd's syndicates despair after reinsurance catastrophe rate rises vanish

  23 April 2018

  Veterans express "horror" at the lack of movement in reinsurance rates after 2017's natural catastrophes, as David Walker reports

  

• The beginning of the end for coal investment and underwriting

  19 April 2018

  Insurers have made efforts to disengage themselves from the coal industry on both sides of the balance sheet, but climate activists say they could do more. Cintia Cheong wraps up the latest developments

  

• Model risk management - why should we care?

  17 April 2018

  There are clear benefits to insurers from taking a holistic approach to managing model risk, says Phil Whittingham

  

• The challenge of constructing IFRS 17 discount rates

  12 April 2018

  Nick Jessop discusses the permitted approaches for constructing insurance contract discount rates under the IFRS 17.

  

• Lloyd's syndicates detail extent of natcat losses

  10 April 2018

  Annual accounts from Lloyd's syndicates show a leap in combined ratios and losses following 2017's natural catastrophes. David Walker analyses the figures

  

• Solving Solvency II's proportionality riddle

  06 April 2018

  Smaller insurers have long complained about the burden of complying with Solvency II, but balancing proportionality with proper supervision continues to be debated. Aggelos Andreou reports

  

• Planning your IMAP programme

  04 April 2018

  In part two of this feature, Ashish Kwatra and Jennifer (Kang) Khaleghy highlight key areas to consider when planning for internal model approval

  

• The future of terrorism risk insurance pools

  29 March 2018

  Paul Walsh investigates how the terrorism pools are maintaining their relevance in the face of cyber threats and the changing nature of terrorist attacks

  

• How to get your Solvency II internal model approved

  27 March 2018

  Ashish Kwatra and Jennifer (Kang) Khaleghy discuss the lessons learnt in applying for regulatory capital models and explain how to manage an effective model approval programme