News

• Mutuals blame rating agencies for soaring Solvency II costs

  30 March 2016

  Amice calls for amendment to reduce reliance on external ratings

• Global catastrophes inflict $37bn industry losses

  30 March 2016

  Relatively low insured losses in 2015 despite record year for natural disasters

• Twelve insurers participate in PBR pilot project

  30 March 2016

  Task force to adopt list of states with similar rules, clearing the way for 2017 take off

• ESRB approves adverse scenarios for insurance stress tests

  29 March 2016

  Impact of prolonged low interest rate scenario and rapidly widening spreads under assessment

• Group capital, PBR and big data top agenda at US regulators' gathering

  29 March 2016

  NAIC spring meeting kicks off on Sunday in New Orleans

• German life sector at the mercy of UFR reduction

  29 March 2016

  Failure of smaller firms could inflict reputational damage for German market

• Eiopa argues against macro regime to deal with low rates

  24 March 2016

  Cites insufficient evidence of need

• Phoenix drops Bermudian captive reinsurer in Solvency II restructuring

  23 March 2016

  Brings £1.4bn in liabilities back to UK and reinsures with third-party

• Brexit risks "manageable" for UK insurers

  23 March 2016

  Loss of EU passporting rights poses greatest threat to the industry, says Moody's

• Manulife's chief actuary takes analytics role

  22 March 2016

  Cindy Forbes to become insurer's first chief analytics officer