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What insurers can learn from banks on scenario analysis for op risk...
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Source: Life & Pension Risk
Michael Haackert and Sven Regling look at how the insurance industry could tap into banks’ knowledge and experience in using scenario analysis to help manage operational risk and calculate capital requirements...
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Source: Life & Pension Risk
The requirements of new regulations such as Solvency II are forcing insurers to update their risk technology infrastructure. Clive Davidson looks at how insurers are adjusting their risk engines in response...
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Source: Life & Pension Risk
Market volatility has made life insurers and pension funds wary of credit risk, but yields on safer assets remain disappointing. Blake Evans-Pritchard reports on ways of bettering the return while limiting...
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Economic turmoil taxes market risk models
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Source: Life & Pension Risk
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 that underpin their models are changing in response to the recent economic turmoil
Scenario analysis for the insurance industry
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Source: Operational Risk & Regulation
The insurance industry could tap into banks’ knowledge and experience in using scenario analysis to help manage operational risk and calculate capital requirements
Insurers await Solvency II clarity for asset allocation
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Source: Life & Pension Risk
The impact of Solvency II on asset allocation decisions is hard to predict, particularly since the rules are not yet finalised, but two recent papers suggest that if a company wants to limit its capital requirements then asset allocation should be a key...
Catastrophe bonds hit by Japanese quake
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Source: Credit
Investors ponder short- and medium-term effects earthquake could have on cat bond market
Omnibus II needed to meet Solvency II deadline
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Source: Life & Pension Risk
German insurer R+V says EC was "lucky" Omnibus II was available to add transitional measures into the impending insurance capital regime
Estimating and reducing lapse risk
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Source: Life & Pension Risk
The financial crisis highlighted the perils of lapse risk, as the strained economic conditions caused some usually docile life policyholders to surrender more easily than expected, while others remained passive. The academic literature isn’t short of...
A proportionate response – captives argue against Solvency II
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Source: Life & Pension Risk
The ability of captive insurers to serve a niche has seen them prized by insurers and non-insurers alike. But their unique structures and often small size leave them exposed to onerous demands under the Solvency II directive. Theodora Tsentas reports...
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