Archive

  • Buffett says Berkshire Hathaway would clean-up following major cat

    04 March 2014

    Climate change not influencing cat risk calculations – yet

  • Insured losses from EU floods may treble by 2050

    04 March 2014

    Total economic losses are also set to double to €23.5bn

  • S&P upgrades RSA on back of capital plan

    03 March 2014

    Credit rating has jumped back to 'A' after December downgrade

  • Amlin's internal model helps cut reinsurance spend

    03 March 2014

    Profits rise, but re/insurer under pressure from lower cat reinsurance rates

  • Expect more frequent weather extremes, says Allianz director

    28 February 2014

    Omen: Q4 2013 generated the most UK claims in a decade

  • Failure to grasp big data will make insurers uncompetitive

    28 February 2014

    Ace's Andrew Kendrick says big data is an arms race

  • RSA's £775m rights issue at core of capital recovery plan

    27 February 2014

    Investments sold and disposals planned as 2013 results disappoint

  • RiskAgility Financial Modeller to replace MoSes

    26 February 2014

    Towers Watson calls it "next-generation" software for life insurers

  • Insurers' models introduce poorly understood risks

    26 February 2014

    Models have become indispensable to managing a modern re/insurer, but their use is creating new risks that are not well understood. Christopher Cundy speaks to the insurer and the academic who are leading a major project to study the systemic risks in modelling

  • Actuarial paper at centre of health data storm

    25 February 2014

    UK health records may be inaccessible to actuaries in future