Archive

• New participants enable £2.5bn longevity swap for AstraZeneca's pension fund

  17 December 2013

  The transaction hedges the longevity risk of around 10,000 members

• Impact Forecasting launches Dutch flood model

  03 December 2013

  Probabilistic catastrophe model for damage to property and motor

• Aon and Optial launch GRC software

  25 November 2013

  Designed to help with Solvency II implementation

• 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

• Technology Guide 2013-14: vendors react to Solvency II delays

  29 October 2013

  Both users and vendors of risk management systems have faced difficult decisions as a result of the further delay in Solvency II implementation. We look at the opportunities and problems created by this and issues such as: do faster systems have to be more complex, as well as more expensive, and will vendors offer more transparency into their models?

• Aon updates storm surge model

  28 October 2013

  Data from superstorm Sandy has been added

• Solvency II driving European reinsurance buying

  24 October 2013

  Life insurers are increasing their reinsurance to meet capital requirements

• Aon develops Colorado flood model

  17 October 2013

  Scenario model quantifies potential for flood losses in the US state

• JP Morgan hires Aon insurance asset head

  24 September 2013

  Gareth Haslip is latest recruit to insurance investment team

• JLT to pay $250m for Towers Watson's reinsurance brokerage

  20 September 2013

  Merger with JLT Re to "restore client choice" to reinsurance market, says Dominic Burke