Scor
Insurers bolster inflation protection
Hedging assets sought to combat escalating risk of interest rate and inflation spike
Scor eyes UK pension funds’ longevity risk
Reinsurer Scor becomes the latest firm to enter the longevity arena
Scor looks to Solvency II
Philippe Trainar, chief risk officer at Scor, talks to Alexander Campbell
MCEV – the quest for market consistency
After the extreme volatility of 2008 spoiled the MCEV launch party, investors have been understandably wary of the way some firms have taken a hardline stance on market consistency. Now the variance in how non-hedgable risks are assessed is what is…
Solvency management provides reinsurance opportunity
Testing economic conditions have prompted widespread moves by life insurers to reinsure their liabilities in order to gain capital relief. As the situation eases, will demand for reinsurance fall, or are other factors coming to prominence? Blake Evans…
Knüpling promoted to deputy CRO at Scor
Frieder Knüpling has been promoted to deputy chief risk officer (CRO) of Paris-based reinsurer Scor.
JP Morgan Chase pushes use of credit derivatives to enhance returns
JP Morgan Chase plans to give a number of presentations to asset managers to encourage them to use credit derivatives to enhance returns.
Scor ousts chief but sees no let up in cost of credit protection
French reinsurer Scor - plagued by profits warnings and a deteriorating financial position - has ousted its chairman and chief executive, Jacques Blondeau, with immediate effect, replacing him with Denis Kessler of the French insurance association.
Scor spreads widen 350bp after firm reveals €38m credit derivatives losses
The cost of senior debt protection on Scor ballooned to 850/1,000 basis points over Libor today, after the French reinsurer revealed, yesterday that it would make a net loss of €250 million this year, following major losses in credit derivatives and…
French reinsurer Scor to return to credit derivatives market next year
French reinsurer Scor Group will come back to the credit derivatives market to offer protection by early next year, said the company’s chairman Jacques Blondeau.