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  • 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

  • S&P raises outlook on Scor as ERM strengthens

    22 November 2013

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

  • Group seeks to expose the "risk elephants" in the room

    12 November 2013

    Additional volunteers sought for UK actuarial working party

  • Will RMS(one) be the one?

    01 November 2013

    The one system to manage all cat exposures and risks, that is. Early testers are enthusiastic, but RMS's claims for its new platform will take some time to assess, and the cost of using it could be a hindrance. Christopher Cundy reports

  • Aon updates storm surge model

    28 October 2013

    Data from superstorm Sandy has been added

  • The technologies reshaping insurance

    18 October 2013

    The insurance industry doesn't often evoke science fiction. But recent technological advances have been so drastic they could have leapt from the pages of Isaac Asimov. Sarfraz Thind reports

  • PRA monitoring insurers for reaction to alternative capital influx

    02 October 2013

    But FCA oversees providers of alternative capital, says Julian Adams