Archive

  • 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

  • Hiscox remains cautious on investment risk

    24 February 2014

    Re/insurer reported growth in premiums and profits in 2013

  • JP Morgan poaches BlackRock's head of sales

    24 February 2014

    James Peagam to head EU global insurance solutions

  • Oasis: a threat or a complement to the cat model giants?

    21 February 2014

    A new open-source loss modelling framework, Oasis, is threatening to shake up the catastophe modelling establishment. Jamie Bullen asks insurers, scientists and cat modellers how they see it developing

  • LCP hires PPO actuary

    19 February 2014

    Sarah MacDonnell joins from Towers Watson

  • Allianz to engage clients on sustainability risks

    19 February 2014

    Becomes latest signatory to Principles for Sustainable Insurance

  • UK flood insured loss to be "manageable"

    18 February 2014

    Ongoing disaster likely to be a one-off negative for primary insurers

  • Moody's Analytics claims credit modelling first

    18 February 2014

    RiskFrontier 4.0 enables "bottom-up" consideration of credit and interest rate risk for the first time