Archive

  • NAIC drafts cyber risk guidance

    13 March 2015

    Cyber underwriters need enhanced solvency oversight

  • China leads the way in Asian solvency reforms

    13 March 2015

    Transition to C-Ross regime begins

  • Insurers feel the pull of longevity swaps

    13 March 2015

    Three years after Aegon started the market, index-based longevity swaps could become a trend across Europe as insurers seek to optimise their capital under Solvency II. Hugo Coelho reports

  • Generali pleads for more time to develop capital model

    13 March 2015

    CEO Marco Greco unconcerned by capitalisation ahead of Solvency II

  • PRA bashes modelling of risks in matching adjustment

    12 March 2015

    Methodologies adopted by several insurers fall below required standards

  • Bermuda recommended for SII equivalence with caveats

    11 March 2015

    Eiopa largely clears Switzerland and Japan

  • Prudential confident on Solvency II despite tumbling ratio

    11 March 2015

    Generating enough cash to avoid insolvency troubles, says Thiam

  • Salary balance shifts in risk transfer markets

    11 March 2015

    Banks no longer top payers, says Plenum's TC Jefferson

  • The curious case of the Swedish curve

    10 March 2015

    Eiopa has cut of the convergence period for the Swedish risk-free rate curve to 10 years from 50, citing the particular characteristics of the bond market. The change will reduce interest rate sensitivity, but increase the risk that insurers under-reserve. Hugo Coelho reports

  • UFR adds 23 points to Achmea's solvency ratio

    10 March 2015

    Bond issuance increases capital buffer in run up to Solvency II