Insurance
Co-operative Group
Practitioner profile
Constructing a curve
Corporate profile
A standard practice?
Cutting Edge: Solvency risk
Seeking high standards
Accounting
Seeking risk transfer
In response to regulatory pressures, European insurers are boosting their efforts to transfer risk to the capital markets. Increasingly, insurance firms are using securitisation as part of their capital management strategies. Rachel Wolcott looks at the…
Uncle Sam is watching You
litigation
Eclectic boutique opens a multifarious box of tricks
FMG Fund Managers has built an unusual mix of single hedge funds and funds of hedge funds, including specialist sector and regional portfolios, says David Walker
Opting for LDI
Liability-driven investment
An end to smoothing
Accounting
March 2006 - Riding the rollercoaster
US natural gas prices have proven to be susceptible to weather-related price swings. Andy Weissman looks at what a risk manager should consider when designing a price risk management program
Leading the energy software revolution
The ETRM software industry is enjoying a long-awaited boom, meaning exciting developments are in store for energy trading and risk management, writes Stella Farrington
Coping with setbacks
Most risk managers and employees in energy companies are familiar with the concepts of market risk and credit risk, but operational risk is receiving more attention in corporate boardrooms these days, writes Sandy Fielden
South Africa New beginnings
Regional Focus
Hedge funds play it safe
Mezzanine Debt
Value for money
Embedded value
Banking the risk premium
Editor's letter
City of New York
Practitioner profile
Learning from adversity
Swedish Life Companies
Pensions
Introduction
A gilt complex
Supply and Demand
Seeking risk transfer
Insurance
Life's perilous journey
Guaranteed variable annuity products generate huge profits for US life insurers, but have left firms massively exposed to exotic equity risk. Some companies are now laying off risk via long-dated, highly structured hedges. Not everyone is convinced this…
