Archive

• My 'A' is not like yours

  18 August 2016

  Fitch and AM Best are wrangling over the equivalency of their IFS rating scale. Hugo Coelho investigates what sets them apart and the implications for insurers buying reinsurance protection

• Dutch insurers to cut €500m in costs until 2018 - Fitch

  07 July 2016

  Improving operational efficiency is response to run-offs and intense price competition

• Brexit prompts 13-point drop in L&G's Solvency II ratio

  28 June 2016

  Ratio falls to 156% from 169% at end-2015

• Fitch and S&P rule out insurer downgrades in the near term

  24 June 2016

  Rating actions dependent on prolonged economic slump and end of group solvency style regulation

• Investor focus on solvency ratios could shape capital strategies

  10 May 2016

  Rating agency warns industry that investors will compare Q1 ratios

• Bafin's Hufeld backs maximum guaranteed rate cut

  26 April 2016

  Change would do little to ease the pain of low interest rates on German life insurers, Fitch says

• Unfreezing the UFR

  26 April 2016

  The revised methodology for calculating the ultimate forward rate may not be a catastrophe for all insurers with long-term liabilities, but it will put an unwelcome spotlight on solvency and accelerate the redesign of products. Hugo Coelho reports

• Mutuals blame rating agencies for soaring Solvency II costs

  30 March 2016

  Amice calls for amendment to reduce reliance on external ratings

• Risky investments shrink non-life insurers' capital surplus

  10 March 2016

  Fitch Ratings assesses full-year results of three UK standard formula firms

• MetLife's spin-off subsidiaries suffer ratings downgrade

  14 January 2016

  S&P and Moody's cite capital intensity and lack of group support