Archive

  • ILS manager Twelve Capital expands into life business with Farsight Partners

    30 January 2023

    Farsight is led by former Securis chief underwriter Paul Whiting

  • Insurance asset allocation strategies to consider in a recession

    15 November 2018

    Insights from experts speaking at upcoming Insurance Risk & Capital EMEA conference

  • The beginning of the end for coal investment and underwriting

    19 April 2018

    Insurers have made efforts to disengage themselves from the coal industry on both sides of the balance sheet, but climate activists say they could do more. Cintia Cheong wraps up the latest developments

  • Brexit shifts debate on Solvency II reforms

    13 October 2016

    Many see Solvency II rules as a largely British export to Europe, but once the UK leaves the EU, the remaining member states are likely to take the directive in a new direction. Callum Tanner reports

  • Credit downgrades raise strategic questions for insurers

    22 September 2016

    Investors are questioning the impact of credit downgrades on insurers' Solvency II balance sheets. Hugo Coelho investigates how firms are gauging this risk and why they resist putting a figure on it