Asset management
A matter of state
State pensions
Assicurazioni Internazionali di Previdenza (AIP)
Practitioner profile
The contingent connection
Credit risk
Pillars of wisdom
Capital assessment
Raising the standard
Comment
Credit Suisse launches longevity index
New angles
The View on Flu
Should life companies worry about bird flu? Swiss Re says yes, but Munich Re and a host of primary insurers claim the risks can be overstated. Richard Irving reports
A pillar of solvency
Paul Sharma, head of policy for banking, insurance and securities at the UK's Financial Services Authority, talks about life at the sharp end of insurance reform. Nicholas Dunbar reports
New Swiss rules reveal hidden capital
Statutory or book reserve capital requirements, a mainstay of continental European insurance regulation, may come under pressure as practitioners digest the results of a field test of new solvency rules conducted by Switzerland's insurance regulator.
Clash of the regulators
As the pace of the Solvency II process to reform European insurance supervision quickens, British and French regulators have clashed over the use of market-consistent solvency requirements, to the alarm of proponents of risk-based supervision.
Standing up and being counted
fund of funds fees
A case of too many cooks?
strategy focus: funds of funds vs multi-strategy
Hedge funds dig deep in direct corporate loan market
direct loans
Copper-bottomed pot of gold
metals/softs