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Insurers explore exchange-traded funds to boost yield
As insurers look for new opportunities to increase the yield on their investment portfolios, exchange-traded funds could provide an efficient way to diversify and gain exposure to areas such as emerging...
The US and Europe are at loggerheads over finding a common regulatory framework for insurers. But as they struggle to come to a resolution the IAIS is looming, with its own approach to global regulation...
Wide-ranging changes to the the OTC derivatives market are leading insurers to upgrade their collateral management systems, often quite substantially. But the complex requirements and computational power...
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Insurers look to technology to improve operational risk management
In the absence of clear regulatory guidance, insurers are developing their own best practice for managing operational risk, and investing in the necessary technological tools that enable them to do so. Clive Davidson reports
Technology providers look to the cloud to meet insurers’ modelling challenges...
Cloud technology potentially offers insurers an efficient way to undertake the huge amount of actuarial and risk modelling calculations that need to be performed. But with concerns around data security and reliability, is it really a fail-safe option?...
CRO 3.0: how the risk function is evolving
Louie Woodall talks to four chief risk officers about how the risk function is responding to the economic and regulatory challenges facing the insurance industry
State regulators clash over US life reserving principles
The NAIC’s proposals for a principles-based approach to reserving for life products has largely been met with agreement from most US states. But with the New York and California state regulators dissenting, the NAIC has a fight on its hands before the...
VA providers seek regulatory boost to products in Asia
Dealers seeking variable annuity related hedging opportunities in Asia-Pacific are focusing on South Korea. While some players have sold hedges based on structured variants of CPPI, dealers hope that the prospect of new regulation in Asian markets could...
Asian investors provide boost to insurers' debt financing efforts
2012 was a buoyant year for debt capital raising by insurers, with companies tapping into the Asia market and issuing innovatively structured instruments. Investors’ appetite for insurance company debt has enabled insurers to move from classical issuance...
Cat bond market poised to boom in 2013
Increasing investor demand and new sponsor opportunities look set to make 2013 a bumper year for the catastrophe bond market. Thomas Whittaker reports
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