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Regulatory change to increase reinsurance buying
13 March 2014But North American CFOs say they are unlikely to use different structures
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Restricting access to health data creates competition issue
07 March 2014Changing rules on access to UK national health data may have consequences for actuarial research and could make it harder to develop new products - and for new entrants to break into life insurance markets. Christopher Cundy reports
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Amlin's internal model helps cut reinsurance spend
03 March 2014Profits rise, but re/insurer under pressure from lower cat reinsurance rates
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RiskAgility Financial Modeller to replace MoSes
26 February 2014Towers Watson calls it "next-generation" software for life insurers
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Insurers' models introduce poorly understood risks
26 February 2014Models have become indispensable to managing a modern re/insurer, but their use is creating new risks that are not well understood. Christopher Cundy speaks to the insurer and the academic who are leading a major project to study the systemic risks in modelling
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Insurance risk professionals see wages rise 30%
20 February 2014Salary hike driven by shift in regulatory expectations and evolving business strategies
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LCP hires PPO actuary
19 February 2014Sarah MacDonnell joins from Towers Watson
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FCA dices with actuaries in annuity profits probe
14 February 2014The UK's Financial Conduct Authority wants to make the annuity markets more competitive, but tackling excess profitability and price differentiation may be a bigger challenge than it thinks. Christopher Cundy reports
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Towers Watson appoints global head of investment
12 February 2014Chris Ford is succeeding Carl Hess
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UK annuities market faces competition probe
10 February 2014Move likely to benefit open-market annuity providers