Insurance
Security for life
US market
Insurers consider alternative route
Investment
A new regulatory world
Portfolio hedging
New rules for a new era
UK market
The next generation
Credit guide: future of CDOs
The drivers of risk
Strategies
A capital solution
Securitisation appears to offer clear regulatory capital benefits to owners of life insurance companies. Will other European banks follow Barclays' lead?
The standard threat to inflation swaps
Accounting standards
Sparks fly over Marks & Spencer
Marks & Spencer
Inflated expectations?
Debt agencies
A capital solution
Insurance securitisation
US puts trust in Canadian finance
Canadian income trusts have been trading at all-time highs. Now that the Canadiangovernment is allowing bigger players onto the market, interest from US energyfirms in such vehicles is growing. By Catherine Lacoursiere
Green shoots for derivatives
Pension funds
Preparing for an end to deflation
Inflation-linked bonds
Managing mismatch risk
Asset and liability management
The central bank of sterling volatility
Cover Story
The top stories from RiskNews
RiskNews
Fair weather future
Judging from the success of the weather risk market in the Asia-Pacific region,the Chicago Mercantile Exchange couldn’t have picked a more opportune timeto launch Japanese weather futures. By Paul Lyon
The reason to issue
CDO guide: market evolution
John Kerry
profile
The long end
30-year bonds
RMS releases updated Climetrix weather trading system
Risk Management Solutions (RMS), a California-based provider of products and services for the management of natural hazard risk, today released version 4.0 of its Climetrix weather derivatives trading and risk management system.
Constructing an operational event database
Michael Haubenstock of US bank Capital One outlines a framework for an event database, formulated with current US regulatory guidance on the subject in mind. The text is an abstract from The Basel Handbook, which has just been published by Risk Books.