Insurance
Life settlements – too good to be true?
Too good to be true?
Basel provides guidance on the use of insurance as a mitigant
Insurance covered
Insurers use new monetisation tools in Asia
Cutting capital constraints
A liquid market – banks tap insurers' liquidity reserves
A liquid market
EC to grant temporary equivalence to risk-based regimes but US picture is unclear
EC to grant temporary equivalence to risk-based regimes but US picture is unclear
Interest rates house
Structured Products Europe Awards 2010
Hedge funds house of the year
Structured Products Europe Awards 2010
To swap is not to insure: Aaron Brown column
To swap is not to insure
Sigor chair says Basel guidance on insurance as op risk mitigant imminent
Guidance paper approved by Basel Committee looks at insurance as a mitigant for AMA institutions
Potential back-door route to Solvency II equivalence for US insurers
EC outlines potential route for US insurance regulatory regime being granted equivalent status to Solvency II
UK FSA bans director amid insurance fraud crackdown
Andrew Jeffery banned and fined over insurance fraud failings
Solvency II poses bigger danger to economic stability than bank refinancing
Refinancing risk dwarfed by Solvency II’s impact on insurer appetite for corporate debt
E&P energy company premiums likely to rise
Energy exploration and production (E&P) companies face increased cost risks as insurance premiums could rise, following BP’s Gulf of Mexico oil spill, which forced reinsurance firms, such as Germany’s Munich Re, to shell out hefty payments
Scor looks to Solvency II
Philippe Trainar, chief risk officer at Scor, talks to Alexander Campbell
Italy’s new structured products landscape
The collapse of Lehman Brothers, a bank that had produced massive amounts of index-linked products for the Italian insurance sector, left retail investors weary of structured investments and led to a big regulatory shake-up. What role can structured…
Taking on variable risk
The variable annuity business in Asia continues to attract banks and insurance companies. The potential market is of a staggering size which would far surpass the volumes in the US or Japan, the two biggest users of the products. Harry Thompson…
Variable annuities face more hedging challenges in Asia
Variable returns
Profile: Swiss Re's Raj Singh
Predicitng the unthinkable
Firms scrimp on insurance despite rise in claims
Survey finds European firms aligning insurance packages with their risk profiles
Loss leaders
Operational risk is potentially the biggest risk faced by insurers – and also one of the most difficult to model. However, as a number of loss data aggregation initiatives globally either emerge or mature, insurers are better placed to quantify their op…
Learning to Love Basel II
Introducing a major insurance element to operational risk management processes is a passion for National Australia Bank’s Ross Love.
Irish regulator warns of post-crisis surpervisory scepticism
The financial regulator, Matthew Elderfield, has warned Irish insurers that he will be more interventionist, rather than wait for a market failure to manifest itself and then cautiously weigh up the costs and benefits of a response.