Archive

  • Regulatory change to increase reinsurance buying

    13 March 2014

    But North American CFOs say they are unlikely to use different structures

  • Restricting access to health data creates competition issue

    07 March 2014

    Changing 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

  • Amlin's internal model helps cut reinsurance spend

    03 March 2014

    Profits rise, but re/insurer under pressure from lower cat reinsurance rates

  • RiskAgility Financial Modeller to replace MoSes

    26 February 2014

    Towers Watson calls it "next-generation" software for life insurers

  • Insurers' models introduce poorly understood risks

    26 February 2014

    Models 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

  • Insurance risk professionals see wages rise 30%

    20 February 2014

    Salary hike driven by shift in regulatory expectations and evolving business strategies

  • LCP hires PPO actuary

    19 February 2014

    Sarah MacDonnell joins from Towers Watson

  • FCA dices with actuaries in annuity profits probe

    14 February 2014

    The 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

  • Towers Watson appoints global head of investment

    12 February 2014

    Chris Ford is succeeding Carl Hess

  • UK annuities market faces competition probe

    10 February 2014

    Move likely to benefit open-market annuity providers