Archive

  • Impact Forecasting launches Dutch flood model

    03 December 2013

    Probabilistic catastrophe model for damage to property and motor

  • Extreme risks ranked in wiki survey

    03 December 2013

    Towers Watson gathers 30,000 responses in internet poll

  • Axa to exit Romanian market

    02 December 2013

    French insurer to sell regional life and savings insurance unit

  • Five years of InsuranceERM, five years on the tortuous journey towards Solvency II

    29 November 2013

    InsuranceERM was launched five years ago, in November 2008, when implementation of Solvency II was less than four years away. Now, it's still over two years away and a lot of water has passed under the bridge. Delving into the InsuranceERM archives, Peter Field charts the ebbs and flows on the way to the European Parliament vote last week for a January 2016 go-live date for Solvency II

  • Towers Watson's Tricia Guinn: "The insurance industry is becoming increasingly analytical"

    27 November 2013

    Towers Watson's decision to sell its reinsurance brokerage is part of a strategy to capitalise on the increasingly analytical and technical nature of the insurance industry, risk and financial services managing director Tricia Guinn tells Lorna Davies.

  • Swiss Re selects WKFS credit risk software

    26 November 2013

    Reinsurer to use Summix Credit Risk

  • Iran nuclear deal lifts certain insurance sanctions

    25 November 2013

    Insurance related to commodities deals will be allowed

  • PIC reinsures £1.4bn of longevity risk

    25 November 2013

    Bulk annuity provider managed longevity exposure after bumper 2013

  • S&P raises outlook on Scor as ERM strengthens

    22 November 2013

    Continues Scor's eight-year unbroken run of positive rating moves

  • Munich Re buys 50% stake in UK power plant

    22 November 2013

    Part of €1.5bn infrastructure investment strategy