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NAIC decision to stop using rating agencies for RMBS heralds major change...
Concern by the NAIC over the veracity of rating agencies’ analysis of insurers’ RMBS holdings is leading to a shake-up in how these organisations are used in the US. Is this pattern set to be followed...
The Dutch pension sector has long-held a focus on nominal liabilities but both schemes and regulators are investigating whether a move to assessing real liabilities would be a step forward.
Born of interest rate volatility, dynamic policyholder behaviour is a variable no insurer can afford to ignore – yet modelling it is problematic. How are companies adapting to the new market conditions?...
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The insurance-based nature of Danish pension provision means almost the entire sector will fall under the remit of Solvency II. And despite the Danish industry’s groundbreaking work in stochastically modelling its assets, the potential extension of...
An interview with Pension Corporation's Rob Sewell
The UK's buyout sector went through a period of dynamic growth in the middle part of this decade, as Legal & General and Prudential's duopoly was broken by a number of new entrants. Some of these new players have either stopped writing new business...
Half empty, or half full?
The green shoots of economic recovery have been spotted in some sectors of the global economy, but with corporate insolvencies not tipped to peak until 2010 for those bodies charged with insuring pension scheme liabilities, the worst of the crisis may...
An unhealthy interest
The rise of impaired annuity providers at the start of the decade prompted a migration of the least healthy annuitants away from traditional providers, skewing their mortality assumptions and capital reserves. But as mainstream annuity providers use an...
The tax timebomb
The decision by Royal Berkshire’s pension fund to conduct a longevity swap is an atypical action in a sector whose sky-high equity allocations and lack of risk awareness have seen the UK’s Local Government Pension Scheme plummet into the red over...
The finishing line is in sight for the Solvency II directive says Ceiops...
Gabriel Bernardino has taken over as chairman of Ceiops at a crucial time. Not only is the Solvency II directive at a key stage in its development, but the prospect of the organisation’s dissolution and replacement by the European Insurance and Occupational...
Health kicks
The US pension sector is having to cope not just with the increased cost of retirement provision but also the attendant healthcare obligations many schemes are under – liabilities that must now be accounted for upfront. Andrew Sheen reports
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