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Multinational insurer of the year - Allianz

A nurturing of its capital base and an ability to react positively to unfavourable market events has made Allianz Life & Pensions’ multinational insurer of the year. Aaron Woolner reports

The hybrid split

Insurers’ capital management has relied heavily on hybrid debt over the last decade – a strategy that has come under threat from Ceiops' latest Solvency II proposals. Aaron Woolner reports

The PPF principle

The result of the recent economic dislocation is an increase in corporate insolvencies - many of which will result in deficit-ridden pension schemes falling into the lap of the UK's Pension Protection Fund. It is timely that the organisation has reviewed…

By the book

Russia's five-year old third pillar pension system started to expand just as the financial crisis swept across the globe - and a deadly combination of high inflation and low government bond yields leaves the sector facing a risk management conundrum…

Double jeopardy

Accurately estimating longevity risk has been a thankless task for insurers, but questions are being raised that Solvency II's standard model could result in companies 'double counting' their capital requirements for this risk. Aaron Woolner Reports

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