Hugo Coelho

Articles by Hugo Coelho

  • Dutch insurers to cut €500m in costs until 2018 - Fitch

    07 July 2016

    Improving operational efficiency is response to run-offs and intense price competition

  • New York adopts NAIC's principle-based reserving in policy U-turn

    07 July 2016

    Regulators to discuss "reserve safeguards" with industry representatives

  • Dutch regulators cut risk margin for funeral services insurers

    06 July 2016

    Cost of capital to be reduced from 6% to 4%

  • Solvency II VA benefit falls 1bps

    06 July 2016

    Eiopa updates composition of representative portfolio

  • Commission stands in the way of UFR reduction

    05 July 2016

    Stakeholders are sidestepping Eiopa and turning to Brussels in a bid to preserve the Solvency II long-term discount rate. Hugo Coelho reports

  • BoE backs flexible reading of Solvency II transitional rules

    05 July 2016

    Transitional benefit recalculation reduces risk of asset fire sales

  • Brexit volatility puts insurers' Solvency II disclosure to test

    01 July 2016

    Analysts to seize opportunity to check whether reported sensitivities held

  • Declining UK influence suggests far-reaching Solvency II reforms

    30 June 2016

    National supervisors argue that looming reviews of the standard formula and the long-term guarantees package could be wider than expected now the UK has voted to leave the EU. Hugo Coelho reports

  • How the PRA wants to change to Solvency II

    27 June 2016

    February consultation offers clues about post-Brexit environment

  • Covered agreement must "remain priority", US reinsurers say

    27 June 2016

    EU-US deal "can set a precedent" for future regulatory agreements