Analysis

• Spanish life insurers heavily reliant on matching adjustment

  27 October 2015

  Top regulator warns about challenge of reporting and governance requirements, but admits industry is well-capitalised. Hugo Coelho reports

• Technology vendors prepare for a new chapter

  22 October 2015

  Christopher Cundy charts the trends in risk and capital management software as the Solvency II implementation date nears

• AIG's Emmanuel Brulé: bridging the cultures

  20 October 2015

  AIG's CRO for Europe, the Middle East and Africa, Emmanuel Brulé, is on a mission to close the gap between risk and the rest of the business. He talks to Christopher Cundy

• "The HLA creates more instability than it subtracts" – Axa's Thimann

  13 October 2015

  Christian Thimann, head of public of affairs at France's largest insurance group, is critical of regulators' plans to tackle systemic risk in the insurance sector. He talks to Hugo Coelho

• Blip, trend or poor model? Insurers respond to shift in mortality projections

  06 October 2015

  Recent mortality projections for England and Wales have led some observers to question whether this marks the start of a new trend – or the need to build a new model. Asa Gibson reports

• Speed becomes vital in cyber attack responses

  01 October 2015

  In part 2 of this feature on cyber attack and the EU's data breach law, Asa Gibson reports on how insurers are responding to the threat

• EU divided over Solvency II's dynamic volatility adjustment

  29 September 2015

  Whether internal model firms can assume changes in the value of the volatility adjustment under stress depends on where they are based and Eiopa's attempts to issue guidance are fraught by disagreements. Hugo Coelho reports

• EU data breach law puts risk managers on edge

  29 September 2015

  The EU is debating laws that would force companies to report data breaches within 72 hours of detection. Asa Gibson asks what this means for insurers

• Quantifying the diversification benefit

  22 September 2015

  The diversification benefit is a crucial factor in internal models, but how do you pin down dependencies in the absence of hard data? Justin Skinner and Russell Ward share their experiences

• Monte Carlo Rendez-vous: Choppy waters on the voyage to El Dorado

  17 September 2015

  At this year's gathering of the reinsurance industry in Monte Carlo, much of the conversation was about adapting to the tough market conditions and exploiting elusive growth opportunities. Asa Gibson and Helen Yates report