Issue: Feb 2013
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Insurers eye CPPI structures for next generation of savings products
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Insurers are investigating a new breed of fund mechanism – the ICPPI – which allows them to offer individualised guarantees on their products more cheaply and flexibly than other types of funds. But...
EDITOR'S LETTER
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The long-awaited impact assessment on Omnibus II’s long-term guarantees package has finally been given the green light after months of political wrangling...
EDITOR'S CHOICE
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The European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Authority (Eiopa) is currently consulting on interim measures, covering areas such as risk governance...
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Asian investors provide boost to insurers' debt financing efforts
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2012 was a buoyant year for debt capital raising by insurers, with companies tapping into the Asia market and issuing innovatively structured instruments...
Cat bond market poised to boom in 2013
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Increasing investor demand and new sponsor opportunities look set to make 2013 a bumper year for the catastrophe bond market. Thomas Whittaker reports...
Insurers grapple with Solvency II economic capital projections
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Solvency II’s requirement for insurers to project capital calculations forward over a number of years is a significant challenge for insurers that are...
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Impact-adjusted valuation and the criticality of leverage
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Marking whole positions to the current clearing price as in mark-to-market accounting ignores the effect that liquidating a position can have. Such...
Zurich's Tom Rogers on the group's risk-based asset model
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Tom Rogers, Zurich Insurance Group’s head of strategy implementation, talks to Michael Faulkner about the insurer’s risk-based approach to asset allocation...
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Lawyers question Eiopa’s powers to soft-launch Solvency II
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Authority promises guidelines on early implementation of risk governance and Orsa rules, but some doubt remains
Long-term guarantees test specifications to be published on test launch day
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Fears that delay in releasing specifications will lead to inaccurate results
Insurers welcome FSA concessions on mutual capital
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But questions remain over cost and complexity of regulator's proposals
Insurers wrestle with Solvency II internal model change policies
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Supervisors say existing guidance has yet to be tested and may not work
Insurers pose less systemic risk than banks, shows study
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Geneva Association research shows proposals for regulating systemically risky insurers are'misguided'
Insurance Risk North America: insurers behind on risk assessment framework for Orsa
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Survey finds insurers still have significant work to do in order to meet 2015 Orsa deadline
Insurance Risk North America: Insurers must 'break addiction to policy guarantees' in low-rate environment
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Lack of product innovation means not enough products work in the low interest rate environment, panellists complain
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