Archive

  • BlackRock predicts insurance asset reallocation in 2013

    24 January 2013

    Says insurers will replace banks in fixed income asset investment

  • Insured losses for 2012 were 36% higher than average

    24 January 2013

    Sandy and US drought were most costly, says Impact Forecasting

  • Aon Benfield offers index-based weather reinsurance

    23 January 2013

    Swiss Re-backed product an alternative to aggregate cat reinsurance cover

  • AllianzGI to launch Europe building fund

    23 January 2013

    Will launch UK fund in Q2

  • Manulife's Rahim Hirji: shifting from hedging to growth

    23 January 2013

    Risk management is no longer about policing an insurance company, says Rahim Hirji, chief risk officer at Canada's Manulife Financial. He talks to Lorna Davies about changing regulations, market concerns and the development of the CRO

  • Rothesay Life and Vestey agree £115m bulk annuity deal

    22 January 2013

    Goldman Sachs' insurance arm wrote over £1bn of new bulk annuity business in 2012

  • CRO Forum elects Vet as vice-chairman

    22 January 2013

    Takes over from Cole who is now chairman

  • PIC signs second Cookson deal

    21 January 2013

    Covers £30m of pensioner liabilities for Vesuvius

  • Skilled people leaving banking for insurance

    21 January 2013

    Optimism and profitability also up for UK life and general insurance, PwC and CBI survey finds

  • Actuaries would "face ridicule" in considering climate change

    18 January 2013

    Resource constraint could dramatically shift assumptions about economic growth, says Actuarial Profession report