Archive

  • Typhoon Haiyan's economic impact to outstrip insured loss

    08 November 2013

    Low insurance penetration in the Philippines means insured losses will be low

  • UK bulk annuity market heading for 2014 capacity crunch

    08 November 2013

    Expected quiet fourth quarter this year could throttle market in 2014

  • Benchmarking the internal capital model

    07 November 2013

    Aon Benfield polled almost 100 users of its ReMetrica capital modelling software to compare how often they ran their internal models, their speed of processing, the number of people involved – and a host of other interesting questions. Jason Noronha and Wing Lam present the results

  • AIR estimates St Jude/Christian cost up to €2.3bn

    07 November 2013

    Majority of losses in Denmark and Germany

  • Growth markets bolster Aviva

    07 November 2013

    New Spanish and Italian business declined however

  • PIC concludes £82m buy-in with Tate & Lyle pension fund

    07 November 2013

    Deal follows record quarter for bulk annuity transactions

  • Asia's reinsurance market less bullish about growth

    06 November 2013

    Regional economic slowdown set to erode confidence

  • Caution: capital models at work

    06 November 2013

    The prospect of Solvency II led many insurers to spend millions building internal capital models and the time has come to make them work for the business. But basing strategy on a tool that has been developed primarily with compliance in mind is not without risk, as Rob Collinson explains

  • Ireland to "comply materially" with Solvency II preparation guidelines

    06 November 2013

    But detailed list of assets and derivatives not required in quarterly report

  • MetaRisk upgraded to allow cat model blending

    05 November 2013

    Guy Carpenter launches version 7.2 of risk and capital management software