Archive

  • JP Morgan to manage Resolution Life's funds

    24 April 2014

    Will help manage investment strategy and $12bn fixed income portfolio

  • The UK pensions bombshell: opportunities among the wreckage?

    11 April 2014

    The UK annuities market is undergoing a dramatic change as the rules on retirement products are rewritten. In this article, Christopher Cundy looks at five major implications for products and strategy

  • Gen Re's Tad Montross: why we need Solvency III

    09 April 2014

    Solvency II has focused too much on modelling and should be revisited, says Gen Re CEO Tad Montross. He tells Sarfraz Thind about "model mania", risk culture and how to run a reinsurer in a chronically soft market

  • Towers Watson appoints UK consultancy head

    07 April 2014

    Tammy Richardson succeeds Steve Shurety

  • Conning acquires fixed income unit

    01 April 2014

    Buys insurance-focused business from Brookfield Investment Management

  • RSA launches £773m rights issue

    25 March 2014

    Part of insurer's capital recovery plan

  • UK annuity sales to slump by more than 50%

    25 March 2014

    Moody's says alternative products will have lower margins

  • Stock market grief continues for specialist annuity providers

    20 March 2014

    But larger insurers bounce back

  • RSA's Irish losses - bad luck or bad management?

    19 March 2014

    RSA's risk management was put under the spotlight last year by a host of unfortunate events, not least an accounting scandal that contributed to a £200m loss at its Irish division. Exonerated by external auditors, the incident has nonetheless raised questions around RSA's risk culture. Sarfraz Thind reports

  • Nat cats cause €1.4bn loss for German P&C insurers

    18 March 2014

    Claims expenditure ratio climbs to 102%