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A liquid market – banks tap insurers' liquidity reserves
Investment banks’ need for liquidity in a low interest rate environment combined with insurers’ need for higher yields has seen the concept of liquidity lending between the two sectors pushed to the...
Aegon appoints global sustainability head The Hague-based insurer Aegon has appointed Marc van Weede as global head of sustainability, reporting directly to CEO Alex Wynaendts. Van Weede was most recently...
In 2003, Swiss Re kickstarted the life securitisation market with Vita 1 – the first bond issue to transfer extreme mortality risk to the capital markets. This prompted the growth of innovative...
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Solvency II standard formula not serving intended purpose - Swiss Re...
Raj Singh tells Life & Pension Risk's annual Solvency II conference in London that Europe should opt for a Swiss-style approach
Raj Singh interview: lesson for the future
The credit crisis has impacted the whole reinsurance sector, but, according to Raj Singh, chief risk officer at Swiss Re, at least it has taught the industry useful lessons for the future. Sarfraz Thind reports
Profile: Swiss Re's Raj Singh
Swiss Re, along with other insurers, is setting its sights on catastrophe risk. Alexander Campbell speaks to its chief risk officer, Raj Singh
New hope for insurance-linked securities
Since the financial crisis the insurance-linked securities market has been squeezed into a tight corridor of issuance with only natural catastrophe bonds seeing any traction – a blow for a market that pre-2008 appeared to be on the cusp of developing...
Swiss Re: nanotech potentially huge problem
The threat to people’s health from nanotechnology means insurers could be exposed to claims on a scale similar to the asbestos scares of the 20th century, according to Zurich-based Swiss Reinsurance. Nanotechnogy is the engineering of functional systems...
Predicting the unthinkable
Raj Singh, chief risk officer at Swiss Re, talks to Alexander Campbell
Holistic thinking
Insurers have been focusing their attention to ERM as the deadline for Solvency II looms – but how well is the industry coping with the challenges this presents?
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