Archive

  • 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

  • Swiss Re names co-founder of BlackRock to board

    14 April 2014

    Susan Wagner becomes non-executive director

  • ABI and IMA to form new investment entity

    11 April 2014

    Daniel Godfrey to be chief executive

  • Global reinsurer capital continues inexorable climb

    11 April 2014

    New high reached of $540bn, says Aon Benfield

  • 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

  • FCA warns annuity firms over new business models

    10 April 2014

    Competition study continues, but with different scope

  • ILS market draws more cash from money managers and mutual funds

    09 April 2014

    Justifying private placements increasingly difficult, says Willis report

  • Gen Re's Tad Montross: why we need Solvency III

    09 April 2014

    Solvency II has focused too much on modelling and should be revisited, says Gen Re CEO Tad Montross. He tells Sarfraz Thind about "model mania", risk culture and how to run a reinsurer in a chronically soft market

  • TSR predicts quieter US hurricane season

    08 April 2014

    Activity may be 40% below recent norm

  • Auto-enrolment boosts UK group life markets

    08 April 2014

    Almost 11m people now covered through workplace, says Swiss Re