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Awards 2011: Chief risk officer of the year: Robin Spencer, Aviva
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The financial crisis had a significant impact on the profile of the risk function within financial services organisations. Yet the role of chief risk officer (CRO) is a relatively new one for insurance...
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AT times of market volatility, a strong asset liability management (ALM) strategy is crucial. Friends Life, the London-based international life and pensions group, stands out for its sophisticated approach...
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Many pension schemes are seeking to de-risk, but healthcare provider General Healthcare Group’s pension scheme undertook an innovative approach that allowed it to improve its funding position and reduce...
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Awards 2011: Deal of the year: ITV and Credit Suisse longevity swap
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The last 16 months have seen a lull in large longevity hedges by pension schemes. That was until ITV entered into a £1.7 billion longevity swap with Credit Suisse to fully hedge the longevity risk for 12,000 of its pensioner members. Under the contract,...
Awards 2011: Innovation of the year: Société Générale
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When variable annuities (VAs) were launched in Europe before the financial crisis the market never really took off, due to issues over hedging. Société Générale has developed a cost-effective hedging solution which it believes will open up the VA...
Awards 2011: Best bank overall: JP Morgan
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JP Morgan is one of the handful of banks that has benefited from the financial crisis through the acquisition of Bear Stearns and Washington Mutual. The bank says its strength is the ability to provide a one-stop-shop for insurance clients. This comes...
Awards 2011: Best bank – ALM advisory: HSBC
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The philosophy behind risk management at HSBC is driven by the need to provide clients with the most appropriate solution from a risk/reward perspective across all asset classes. Simon Hotchin, London-based co-ordinator of HSBC’s newly formed pan-European...
Awards 2011: Best bank – equity risk: Deutsche Bank
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One of the main sources of an insurance company’s volatility exposure comes from with-profit funds with embedded guarantees. Deutsche Bank has been helping insurance clients manage this volatility through reshaping their asset portfolios. Tom Leake,...
Awards 2011: Best bank – interest and inflation risk: JP Morgan
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JP Morgan is one of the biggest interest rate derivatives banks, making it a natural preferred counterparty for life insurance companies and pension funds. Tom Keatinge, London-based head of European insurance capital management at JP Morgan, says: ...
Awards 2011: Best bank – credit risk: Royal Bank of Scotland
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Recent months have seen two themes emerging in the credit markets: insurers with large sovereign portfolios looking for yield enhancement without taking extensive credit risk, and insurers looking at alternatives to credit as they sell down their portfolios...
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