Issue: Feb 2012
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COVER STORY
Getting to grips with the Orsa challenge
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Across Europe insurers are reporting uneven progress in their preparations to meet the Orsa requirements, with many firms struggling to adapt their practices to the new regime. Ellen Davis reports
EDITOR'S LETTER
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Extreme market volatility continues to make life hard for insurers. The eurozone rumbles on without any clear sign of resolution and the threats of a Greek...
EDITOR'S CHOICE
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Low interest rates and market volatility are unsettling variable annuity providers in the US. Blake Evans-Pritchard reports on how they are coping in...
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Economic turmoil taxes market risk models
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Managing market risk is a key issue for life insurers. Clive Davidson looks at the challenges they face in modelling this risk and how the assumptions...
Local regulators grapple with Solvency II implementation
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National European regulators are moving forward with Solvency II implementation at varying speeds. With Omnibus II still to be finalised, the uncertainties...
Market unrest prompts caution over commodities as diversifying asset class
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Life insurers and pension funds have been using commodities as a portfolio diversifier for years. Blake Evans-Pritchard reports on how the asset class...
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Perturbed Gaussian copula: introducing the skew effect in co-dependence
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Gaussian copula models are often used in the industry when single-asset information is quoted but little is known about their joint relation. These...
Strategic risk: RSA’s chief risk officer on applying Solvency II
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UK insurance group RSA has embraced Solvency II. Last month, the group was awarded insurance risk manager of the year by Life & Pension Risk’s sister...
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FSA guidance on liquidity swaps imminent following meeting with banks and insurers
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Regulator expected to avoid hard rules, but consultation may have been detrimental to market, say bankers
Arguments on artificial volatility dampeners must focus on fundamentals, warns Skinner
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Debate on matching and counter-cyclical premiums must not remain linked to needs of specific countries if political consensus is to be reached
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