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  • "A year of two halves" for 2013 mortality rates

    03 February 2014

    England and Wales data shows big disparity between first and second halves of the year

  • Annuity firms need own view of longevity improvement

    29 January 2014

    Individual UK annuity providers should confront the fact that their exposures to longevity risk from people living longer may be materially different from those indicated by the UK Office for National Statistics figures, says Matthew Edwards

  • American life insurers admit regulatory challenges

    16 January 2014

    Half of North American life industry expecting to change product design

  • "The best development of 2013 was increasing regulatory certainty"

    01 January 2014

    Towers Watson's Mike Wilkinson shares his thoughts on 2013 and what to look forward to in 2014

  • "Eiopa should establish a 'standard insurer' benchmark" - UPDATED

    20 December 2013

    It could be used by firms to measure their deviations from standard formula assumptions, say academics

  • Guy Shepherd joins Quintant Partners

    09 December 2013

    Firm aims to advise insurers on how to capitalise on their Solvency II technology investment

  • IBM completes RiskTech 100 hat trick

    04 December 2013

    Chartis Research's rankings cover software for insurance, banking, trading and asset management

  • Extreme risks ranked in wiki survey

    03 December 2013

    Towers Watson gathers 30,000 responses in internet poll

  • Towers Watson's Tricia Guinn: "The insurance industry is becoming increasingly analytical"

    27 November 2013

    Towers Watson's decision to sell its reinsurance brokerage is part of a strategy to capitalise on the increasingly analytical and technical nature of the insurance industry, risk and financial services managing director Tricia Guinn tells Lorna Davies.

  • Swiss Re selects WKFS credit risk software

    26 November 2013

    Reinsurer to use Summix Credit Risk