Feature
Risk Assessment
Management
Ready for anything?
Top OR&C 2009 risks
Cultural competence
Management
A long hard look at fraud
Financial Crime
Bust beneficiaries
Exchange-traded funds
A stamp of approval
Solvency II Special Report: Internal Models
Broken trust
Italian fund investment
Classifica italiana
Life & Pensions Rankings Italy 2008
Model behaviour
Sponsored Roundtable
QIS 4 and the Italian insurance industry
Solvency II Special Report: Comment
Safe as houses?
Equity release
Beyond the standard the challenges of self-modelling
Solvency II Special Report: Internal Models
Sourcing security
Markets
Catching the wave
Dealers are offering a swathe of volatility-linked products in Asia both as risk-reduction and investment tools, generally based on fear gauge, the Vix index. How are these products catching on in the region? Georgina Lee reports
The ideal copy
A series of hedge fund redemptions in the third quarter of 2008 have alerted investors to just how illiquid these investments can be. Add in the restrictions that some of funds have placed on withdrawing cash, and it is easy to see why structured…
Fuelling an emissions market
The carbon emissions credits market is heating up as investors are increasingly able to tap into the theme via structured products and exchange-traded funds. But how viable is the carbon theme as an underlying and what challenges do structured products…
Lehman restructured
The collapse of Lehman Brothers left billions of dollars of structured notes with unhedged exposures, prompting issuers to scramble for new counterparties to restructure trades. Meanwhile, some structured product providers have offered hope to investors…
Out of the comfort zone
Operational stress