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Swiss Re to acquire stake in FWD Group
16 October 2013Swiss reinsurer will invest up to $425m into the Asian insurance business
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Axa places €350m cat bond
16 October 2013The windstorm catastrophe bond is the largest euro-denominated issuance to date
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FCA outlines early warning procedures
15 October 2013The Financial Conduct Authority can now name companies and individuals facing potential enforcement action
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Montpelier Re to research alternatives to traditional cat models
14 October 2013Bermudian reinsurer sets up risk institute with Canadian and European academics
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Eiopa budgets €1.5m for XBRL data hub
14 October 2013But occupational pensions, not Solvency II, will be focus in 2014
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Understand, don't blend, cat models
11 October 2013The changes afoot in insurance markets make an "own view of risk" essential to the future of today's firms – and the best approach is not through blending of catastrophe models, argues Mike Duffy
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NAIC has "serious concerns" over global insurer capital standard
10 October 2013Details of IAIS plan yet to emerge
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Investors welcome Swiss Re's solvency/hurricane contingent debt
09 October 2013Reinsurer may repeat issuance for other perils
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Global capital standard to be implemented in 2019
09 October 2013IAIS says development will be complete by end of 2016
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Communication is the next step in internal model validation
09 October 2013Internal model validation has evolved rapidly in the last three years but the key to getting real value from the process in 2014 is to focus on communication, say Charl Cronje and Tom Durkin