Variable annuities
Banks offer combined reinsurance and hedging solution to Japan VA providers...
Following risk management failures in the financial crisis, Japanese variable annuity providers’ new VA offerings include conservative investment objectives and sophisticated hedging strategies, combined...
Calculating credit value adjustment correctly for exotic instruments can require the simulation of scenarios within scenarios – and today’s computers may not be up to it. As a result, banks are looking...
Low interest rates and market volatility are unsettling variable annuity providers in the US. Blake Evans-Pritchard reports on how they are coping in this challenging environment
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The volatility challenge
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 default and wider contagion still loom ominously. As a result, insurers have been moving into risk...
Solvency II set to boost interest in variable annuities
Variable annuities were launched in Europe shortly before the financial crisis began but, in the face of well-documented hedging problems in the US, the market never really took off. Alex Davis investigates whether the implementation of Solvency II will...
Internal model compulsory for variable annuity providers in Ireland...
All variable annuity (VA) providers in the Republic of Ireland - the main VA domicile in the European Union (EU) - will be required to use an internal model to ensure that "solvency standards are appropriately calibrated to the[ir] unique risks", says...
Asia-Pacific insurance sector leans further towards structured products...
Taiwan and Malaysia have been at the heart of the latest developments in insurance-based structured products across the Asia-Pacific region. Activity has also increased in South Korea and Japan, while the Philippines offers a new home for product sales...
Sponsored statement: MetLife
Andrew Rallis, MetLife’s senior vice president and global head of asset/liability management, charts the insurer’s recent history of success, and expounds on their sophisticated IT platform and innovative new products, and how MetLife plans to meet...
Estimating and reducing lapse 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...
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