Analysis

  • Climate change and geo-economics: the global risks demanding ERM focus

    26 January 2016

    The latest World Economic Forum risks report provides useful indicators for CROs about the changing risk landscape. Asa Gibson reports

  • Nordea's Annette Olesen: "It feels good to move beyond the go-live date"

    19 January 2016

    The group chief risk officer for Nordea Life & Pensions talks to Christopher Cundy about her company's entry into the Solvency II world

  • Catastrophe models and Solvency II - lessons learnt and challenges for the future

    14 January 2016

    Marta Abramska recounts how the EU regulation changed the cat modelling community and warns insurers to watch out for an explosion in bureaucracy

  • Reinsurance buying evolves as Solvency II kicks off

    12 January 2016

    The arrival of Solvency II has not dominated the 1 January reinsurance renewals, but it is having a fundamental effect on buying strategies, according to brokers. Christopher Cundy reports

  • Dear Shareholders...

    07 January 2016

    InsuranceERM imagines what the chairperson of a UK-based composite insurer might be telling its shareholders in 2018 about the evolution of Solvency II and other possible changes in prudential regulation

  • What to expect in 2016?

    01 January 2016

    Solvency II comes into force today, but it will take a long time before firms enter a business-as-usual environment

  • Solvency II spreads its tentacles

    29 December 2015

    Solvency II took longer than expected to be implemented in Europe, but what effect has that had on other risk-based capital initiatives across the globe? Asa Gibson reports

  • The twists and turns of Solvency II negotiations

    22 December 2015

    A behind the scenes account of the drawn-out political negotiations, the private letters and corridor discussions, the unforeseen u-turns and the fiery arguments, the lengthy road trips and the snappy tweets, by Hugo Coelho

  • ESRB's Mazzaferro: "We want to counter the narrative that insurers are not systemic"

    16 December 2015

    ESRB's head of secretariat makes the case for a countercyclical capital requirement and a liquidity requirement for insurers. Hugo Coelho reports

  • Living up to the promise of internal models

    08 December 2015

    Supervisory approval is not the end of the Solvency II internal model process. From 1 January, models are for insurers to leverage and for insurers to lose. Hugo Coelho and Christopher Cundy report