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  • St Jude storm hits largest exposure on UK insurers' books

    28 October 2013

    But impact "not as bad" as 1987 or 1990 storms, says PwC

  • Costs to implement accounting standards soar

    25 October 2013

    Predicted budget to meet IFRS standards is now $25m-50m

  • Omnibus II trialogue makes no progress

    25 October 2013

    Crucial meeting set for 13 November

  • German life insurers face losses if interest rates remain low

    24 October 2013

    Mismatched assets and liabilities and high guarantees leave sector vulnerable, says Moody's

  • MetLife, Manulife say accounting proposals bring "unwarranted volatility"

    24 October 2013

    US life firms respond to the IASB's third exposure draft

  • Solvency II driving European reinsurance buying

    24 October 2013

    Life insurers are increasing their reinsurance to meet capital requirements

  • Low-cost modelling platform claims "ground breaking" computation speeds

    24 October 2013

    Marriott Sinclair's Tyche takes advantage of parallel processing

  • Efficient asset allocation with least squares Monte Carlo

    23 October 2013

    Traditional methods of allocating assets fall short in several key aspects. In this paper, Romain Lombardo and Alexis Bailly show how the LSMC approach can be used to optimise asset allocation for insurers in a Solvency II world

  • Solvency II still a factor in M&A activity

    23 October 2013

    Despite Western Europe being least attractive region, says survey

  • Goldman Sachs sells majority stake in Rothesay Life

    22 October 2013

    Blackstone, GIC and MassMutual buy into pensions insurer