Opinion/Liability Management
The volatility challenge
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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....
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While European leaders scramble about trying to fix the eurozone debt crisis, behind the scenes the (equally slow and equally frustrating) process of hammering out the fine details of Solvency II continues....
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The eurozone debt crisis raises a fundamental question about the risk-free status of sovereign debt in Solvency II. The events of recent months have shown that some government bonds are anything but risk...
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The gathering storm
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The skies are once again darkening over the world economy. A recent string of grim economic data is raising the spectre of global recession. As world leaders fight to save the eurozone – itself on the brink of recession – in the wake of the sovereign...
Change of governance
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Governance is the post-crisis buzzword – get this aspect right, so the argument goes, and firms will have a much better grip on the risks they are running. And for insurers, getting the governance issue right is key to successfully navigating the Solvency...
Nuclear risks cloud Japan's economic outlook
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An end to the beginning
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It is axiomatic that managing longevity risk is a long-term affair. Assuming that a one-year increase in life expectancy adds 3% to a pension scheme's liabilities it would take an increase of 10 years in a 12-month period to come close to the hit schemes'...
Equitable for whom?
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Buy now, cry later
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The role of derivatives in sovereign and local government borrowing has been in the spotlight since February, when a 2001 cross-currency swap between Greece and Goldman Sachs hit the headlines again. That trade, first reported in Risk in 2003 (Risk...
A new approach to risk
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