Archive

  • European insurers see embedded values rise

    17 July 2014

    New business aiding recovery says Milliman

  • Going off-trail on internal models

    17 July 2014

    Over the past three years, about one in three UK insurers intending to build an internal model have scrapped their plans. More could follow before April next year, when the formal applications are due. Hugo Coelho investigates.

  • VIF monetisation transactions on the rise in the UK

    20 June 2014

    Insurers seeking capital optimisation and enhanced liquidity drive surge in sales of future cash-flows

  • Annuity changes put corporate bonds under pressure

    23 April 2014

    Revisions to the UK's legislation around annuities is causing insurers to rethink investment strategies. Hardeep Dhillon examines the impact on sterling capital markets and demand for assets

  • PRA issues statement on deferred tax assets under SII

    17 April 2014

    Highlights areas requiring particular attention from insurers

  • Derivatives used for hedging by two out of three life insurers

    14 April 2014

    Interest-rate, equity and currency risks are the main ones hedged, Milliman survey finds

  • The UK pensions bombshell: opportunities among the wreckage?

    11 April 2014

    The UK annuities market is undergoing a dramatic change as the rules on retirement products are rewritten. In this article, Christopher Cundy looks at five major implications for products and strategy

  • Exploring the regulator's approach to risk culture

    26 March 2014

    Using the theory of plural rationality, Dave Ingram, Michael Thompson, Alice Underwood and Elliot Varnell describe how the various approaches to insurance and financial regulation deal with risk - and how they cope in a crisis

  • PIC bolsters risk team with hires from Milliman

    20 March 2014

    William Coatesworth and Elliot Varnell to join pensions insurer

  • The ORSA gallops around the world

    14 January 2014

    Common in concept, but implemented according to local taste, the own risk and solvency assessment (ORSA) has become a global tool for risk management and supervision. Eamonn Phelan and Padraic O'Malley document the spread of ORSA reporting