Archive

  • Swiss Re to acquire stake in FWD Group

    16 October 2013

    Swiss reinsurer will invest up to $425m into the Asian insurance business

  • Axa places €350m cat bond

    16 October 2013

    The windstorm catastrophe bond is the largest euro-denominated issuance to date

  • FCA outlines early warning procedures

    15 October 2013

    The Financial Conduct Authority can now name companies and individuals facing potential enforcement action

  • Montpelier Re to research alternatives to traditional cat models

    14 October 2013

    Bermudian reinsurer sets up risk institute with Canadian and European academics

  • Eiopa budgets €1.5m for XBRL data hub

    14 October 2013

    But occupational pensions, not Solvency II, will be focus in 2014

  • Understand, don't blend, cat models

    11 October 2013

    The changes afoot in insurance markets make an "own view of risk" essential to the future of today's firms – and the best approach is not through blending of catastrophe models, argues Mike Duffy

  • NAIC has "serious concerns" over global insurer capital standard

    10 October 2013

    Details of IAIS plan yet to emerge

  • Investors welcome Swiss Re's solvency/hurricane contingent debt

    09 October 2013

    Reinsurer may repeat issuance for other perils

  • Global capital standard to be implemented in 2019

    09 October 2013

    IAIS says development will be complete by end of 2016

  • Communication is the next step in internal model validation

    09 October 2013

    Internal model validation has evolved rapidly in the last three years but the key to getting real value from the process in 2014 is to focus on communication, say Charl Cronje and Tom Durkin