News

• Half of hurricane-prone US states have bolstered building codes; half haven't

  23 August 2013

  Mixed picture from IBHS as hurricane season reaches peak

• CBI appoints former French insurer deputy governor

  22 August 2013

  Cyril Roux will be in charge of Ireland's financial regulation

• Cats cost insurers below-average $20bn in first half

  21 August 2013

  Floods main cause of losses, says Swiss Re; cat bonds performing well as Atlantic hurricane season enters peak period

• "Solvency 2 Directive" launched

  20 August 2013

  Not the new EU regulatory framework, but an app from CIMCON

• UK's Flood Re insurance pool is 'unsustainable'

  19 August 2013

  Effects of climate change not taken into account, says study

• Longevity risk transfer markets come under international scrutiny

  16 August 2013

  Joint Forum issues consultative document with eight recommendations

• SOA plans genetically-informed risk assessment seminar

  16 August 2013

  Will look at impact of "the coming revolution" in personalised medicine on risk assessment and life underwriting

• Lee-Carter model added to Numerix Leading Hedge

  14 August 2013

  Aimed at improving quantification of longevity risk

• Eqecat releases RQE v14

  13 August 2013

  Aims to make cat risk modelling platform the industry benchmark

• US and Asia boost Prudential's first-half profit

  12 August 2013

  Thiam again stresses importance of Asia to future growth