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Hannover Re incurs €64m loss from hailstorm Andreas
17 October 2013Industry losses estimated at €2.5bn
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Swiss Re to acquire stake in FWD Group
16 October 2013Swiss reinsurer will invest up to $425m into the Asian insurance business
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Axa places €350m cat bond
16 October 2013The windstorm catastrophe bond is the largest euro-denominated issuance to date
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FCA outlines early warning procedures
15 October 2013The Financial Conduct Authority can now name companies and individuals facing potential enforcement action
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Montpelier Re to research alternatives to traditional cat models
14 October 2013Bermudian reinsurer sets up risk institute with Canadian and European academics
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Eiopa budgets €1.5m for XBRL data hub
14 October 2013But occupational pensions, not Solvency II, will be focus in 2014
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Understand, don't blend, cat models
11 October 2013The 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
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NAIC has "serious concerns" over global insurer capital standard
10 October 2013Details of IAIS plan yet to emerge
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Investors welcome Swiss Re's solvency/hurricane contingent debt
09 October 2013Reinsurer may repeat issuance for other perils
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Global capital standard to be implemented in 2019
09 October 2013IAIS says development will be complete by end of 2016