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More power for actuarial modelling
11 July 2025Christopher Cundy investigates the strengths, weaknesses and applicability of two technologies - cloud and GPUs - that are helping improve the speed of actuarial modelling
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The hidden costs of actuarial modelling systems
04 July 2025Why understanding total cost of ownership means thinking beyond software licences to people, processes and risk, as Joshua Geer reports
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US RBC modernisation: what to expect from the capital rule review
08 April 2025US regulators have initiated a reappraisal of the Risk-Based Capital rules and how future reforms should be made. Sarfraz Thind and Christopher Cundy report
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Eiopa's call for cross-border overhaul, and the path to a single EU supervisor
30 December 2024Challenges with supervising cross-border insurance sales has prompted the EU's insurance authority to demand greater powers. But could bigger events in Brussels overtake them? Christopher Cundy and Martin Assmann report
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The end of the road for matching adjustment reforms
18 June 2024The long journey to update the UK's version of the Solvency II matching adjustment is finally complete. Nick Ford summarises the implications of the changes and what's in store for life insurers
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How many insurers have Solvency II internal models?
20 March 2024David Walker and Christopher Cundy set about finding the answer in the EEA and UK markets
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Backtesting the Solvency II SCR: surprising findings and risk management implications
22 November 2023Ralf Korn and Gerhard Stahl discuss their novel investigation into the quality of Solvency II capital models and reveal a simple but powerful method for challenging model complexity
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Cyber risk: has the capital been hacked?
16 February 2023Simon Cartagena and Jasvir Grewal explain how insurers should be thinking about setting their cyber risk capital
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Stress testing reinsurer resilience to reserve shocks
06 September 2022Stuart Shipperlee discusses Litmus Analysis' examination of 35 leading reinsurance carriers to understand their overall resilience to reserve shocks, and notes very significant individual variances
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ALM and capital management under Hong Kong's RBC
07 July 2022Richard Chan, Hong Kong chief investment officer and Asia head of ALM at Axa, discusses Hong Kong's forthcoming risk-based capital regime and how insurers will respond