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  • What the LTGA really says about the matching adjustment

    10 July 2013

    A workable matching adjustment is critical for many insurers facing the prospect of complying with Solvency II, but Eiopa's recent study on long-term guarantee measures has left some aspects ambiguous and others unfeasible. Kim Durniat delves into Eiopa's concluding report to bring out the nuances

  • PRA's Bailey: "We have a good way to go to make Solvency II manageable"

    09 July 2013

    Speech to ABI conference defends use of early warning indicators

  • US reinsurance rates remain under pressure at 1 July renewals

    09 July 2013

    Pricing to trend downwards for the rest of the year, say brokers

  • PIC strikes largest UK pension buy-out deal

    09 July 2013

    Insures £1.5bn liabilities of EMI pension fund

  • Swiss Re expects $300m in claims from European floods

    08 July 2013

    Puts total cost to insurance industry at $3.5bn-4.5bn

  • Low interest rates challenge regulators as well as insurers

    05 July 2013

    Current economic policies are creating market distortions that insurers and their regulators should tackle sooner rather than later, says Daniel Hofmann, advisor to the chairman of Zurich Insurance Group

  • Groupe Consultatif appoints CEO

    04 July 2013

    Dutchman Ad Kok takes new role

  • L&G takes deferred premium in bulk annuity deal

    04 July 2013

    Deal insures liabilities of Kenwood pension fund

  • Lloyd's CEO to quit in December

    04 July 2013

    Richard Ward has been longest-serving chief executive

  • Phoenix breathes new life into its actuarial systems

    03 July 2013

    The UK closed-fund consolidator has replaced its myriad modelling systems with just one, in a huge three-year project that is said to have been on time and on budget. For Phoenix, the project was not only operationally necessary; it was a strategic imperative. InsuranceERM explains