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"The best development of 2013 was increasing regulatory certainty"
01 January 2014Towers Watson's Mike Wilkinson shares his thoughts on 2013 and what to look forward to in 2014
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Extreme risks ranked in wiki survey
03 December 2013Towers Watson gathers 30,000 responses in internet poll
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Towers Watson's Tricia Guinn: "The insurance industry is becoming increasingly analytical"
27 November 2013Towers 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.
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Caution: capital models at work
06 November 2013The prospect of Solvency II led many insurers to spend millions building internal capital models and the time has come to make them work for the business. But basing strategy on a tool that has been developed primarily with compliance in mind is not without risk, as Rob Collinson explains
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Technology Guide 2013-14: vendors react to Solvency II delays
29 October 2013Both users and vendors of risk management systems have faced difficult decisions as a result of the further delay in Solvency II implementation. We look at the opportunities and problems created by this and issues such as: do faster systems have to be more complex, as well as more expensive, and will vendors offer more transparency into their models?
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Low-cost modelling platform claims "ground breaking" computation speeds
24 October 2013Marriott Sinclair's Tyche takes advantage of parallel processing
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Solvency II still a factor in M&A activity
23 October 2013Despite Western Europe being least attractive region, says survey
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JLT to pay $250m for Towers Watson's reinsurance brokerage
20 September 2013Merger with JLT Re to "restore client choice" to reinsurance market, says Dominic Burke
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Internal models diverge on treatment of credit risk
17 September 2013Towers Watson reports on progress in risk calibration by UK life insurers
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Aegon ditches ECB swap curve for Solvency I calculation
03 September 2013Decision follows downgrade of France's credit rating