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Solvency II

New own funds specifications add capital restrictions

New technical specifications on Solvency II’s capital requirements make some significant changes to the way insurers calculate their own funds, but they also leave some unanswered questions. Louie Woodall reports

05 Dec 2012

Regulation

Hedge fund industry seeks solutions to Solvency II challenges

Solvency test

04 Dec 2012

Strategy

Hedge funds expect abundant growth opportunities in sub-Saharan Africa

Promise of growth

04 Dec 2012

Investors

Hedge fund managers show skill in finding value throughout 2012

Skill in finding value

04 Dec 2012

Strategy

Hedge funds see opportunities in shadow of Basel III

Contrasting capital considerations

30 Nov 2012

Solvency II

Model behaviour: supervisors grapple with internal model approval

With regulators struggling to get comfortable with insurers’ internal models, and with the memory of the subprime crisis still lingering, the question of how to ensure that the models are robust is worrying supervisors. Blake Evans-Pritchard reports

22 Nov 2012

Operational risk

System failures highlight need for IT resilience

Two major software failures have caused embarrassment and significant financial loss to leading financial institutions this year. Alison Ebbage looks at the lessons to be learned from the RBS and Knight Capital problems