Issue: May 2012
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Insurers look to volatility controls to support long-term guarantees
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As insurers look for ways to offer long-term guarantees to customers despite the challenging investment environment, some are turning to volatility control mechanisms to reduce the cost of hedging the...
EDITOR'S LETTER
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Another month, another delay to Solvency II. This time the focus is the date by which member states must transpose the directive into national law. The...
EDITOR'S CHOICE
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Reserve financing using offshore captives is big business in the US. Yet what started as an innovative method of moving excessive reserve requirements...
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Propagating causal stress tests on selected risk factors to all the risk drivers is a challenging task. Attilio Meucci relies on entropy pooling to...
Q&A: Ann Muldoon, Friends Life, Solvency II programme director
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Michael Faulkner talks to Ann Muldoon, Solvency II programme director at Friends Life, about how the insurer is progressing with its Solvency II implementation...
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Governments should support development of longevity risk market – IMF
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Issuance of longevity bonds could provide liquidity but costs may outweigh benefits, says organisation
Slow progress on Solvency II internal model validation threatens approval, FSA warns
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Firms could be ejected from internal model application process if they do not improve, says regulator
Record Q1 for cat bonds as pension funds increase capacity
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First quarter 2012 most active first quarter ever, say market participants
Dutch regulator to begin Solvency II test on insurers
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Parallel test with Solvency I assessments could challenge smaller insurers, experts warn
Another delay in Solvency II as EC proposes deferral of transposition date
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Commission takes legal advice on Econ committee proposals
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