Analysis

• Systemic risk regulation 2.0

  22 March 2018

  International regulators are revisiting the question of how to tackle systemic risk in the insurance sector, proposing an approach based around activities. Aggelos Andreou reports

  

• Myth-busting the demise of commercial property insurance

  13 March 2018

  The value of companies today is based more in intangible assets than ever before. So should commercial property insurers be worried about the future of their business? Tim Freestone delves into the data to reveal a surprising answer

  

• Axa's Buberl defends takeover of XL

  06 March 2018

  Axa's share price dropped almost 10% following the announcement of its plan to acquire XL Group. Aggelos Andreou reports on the rationale behind the deal

  

• Insurers make 'short work' of SFCR internal model disclosures

  27 February 2018

  David Walker compares how firms describe internal models in their solvency and financial condition reports and considers how the practice may evolve

  

• Risk and actuarial recruitment: boom time again

  22 February 2018

  Wages in actuarial and risk management roles are going up, in large part because of the opportunities created by IFRS 17, the new insurance contracts accounting standard. Cintia Cheong reports

  

• IDD delay greeted with mixed reactions

  15 February 2018

  Insurers have welcomed the European Commission's proposal to delay implementation of the Insurance Distribution Directive, but not all national regulators are towing the line. Aggelos Andreou reports

  

• SFCRs: delivering the goods in round two

  13 February 2018

  An early financial year-end makes life and health insurer Vitality one of the first major EU insurers to deliver its annual solvency and financial condition report. David Walker discusses what's changed and how other underwriters may evolve their SFCRs in the second year of reporting

  

• Axa's Christian Thimann: EU's sustainability drive directly linked to Solvency II reform

  08 February 2018

  The chair of the European Commission's expert group on sustainable finance talks to Paul Walsh about the group's recommendations – and how they are intrinsically linked with Solvency II.

  

• The long-term impacts of 2017's natural catastrophes

  06 February 2018

  Following the devastation caused by hurricanes and wildfires last year, Paul Walsh asks the industry what the lessons are for insurers and risk modellers

  

• The PRA's David Rule on Brexit, the risk margin and the regulator's hotspots for supervision in 2018

  31 January 2018

  The UK's executive director for insurance supervision talks to Christopher Cundy about how the Prudential Regulation Authority is approaching Brexit and reveals the latest views on reforming the risk margin