Insurance

Choose life

The US life settlements sector is marketing itself to pension funds and European insurers as an easy way to add diversification to a portfolio. But how are the risks modelled and how can the banks and hedge funds that are brokering the transactions…

It's all relative

The Operational Risk Consortium recently carried out an analysis of its growing database of operational losses in the insurance business. It found evidence of the need for scaling, which suggests no firm's losses should be viewed in isolation. Mariano…

Rethinking and revaluing

Many US insurance companies have reported massive losses on the hedging of variable annuity products. European variable annuity providers, however, have faced problems of their own. Matt Cameron reports

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