Reinsurance
Reinsurers take on role providing Solvency II capital relief
Firms such as RGA are covering surrender risk, offering to replicate matching adjustment
Reinsurer of the year: Prudential Financial
Risk Awards 2018: From rock stars to robots – how reinsurer is trying to keep up with longevity demand
Risk solutions house of the year: Nomura
Risk Awards 2018: From reinsurance contracts to deal-contingent hedges, Japanese firm proves brains can triumph over brawn
Monthly credit data review: UK corporates’ post-Brexit slide
UK financials show steady post-Brexit decline in credit quality
Cyber insurers accused of lax underwriting standards
Loss data becoming more granular and diverse, but critics highlight pricing inconsistencies among underwriters
Deal or no deal? US divided on EU insurance agreement
Benefits of mutual recognition may encourage Trump administration to keep Obama’s last act
De-risking pension funds across the board
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Japan house of the year: Societe Generale Corporate and Investment Banking
Innovative reinsurance products helped solve insurers’ fixed indexed annuity hedging needs
The valuation of contingent convertible catastrophe debt under simple solvency and liquidity covenants
This paper studies a new write-off debt instrument (called CoCoCAT bond) whose writeoff is triggered by solvency and event-driven covenants.
Weather house of the year: Endurance Global Weather
Team crafts innovative wind contracts to manage generators’ unique risks
Research on equity release mortgage risk diversification with financial innovation: reinsurance usage
This paper examines the risk diversification of ERMs via the reinsurance strategy.
Life firms split on what risk margin means for bulk annuities
L&G predicts record volumes, but Aegon and UK's Prudential say risk-margin costs too high
Managing pension risk: The UK leads the way
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Hedge, reinsure or restructure: insurers mull risk-margin fixes
Advisers are pitching ideas to help companies deal with rate-sensitive risk margin
Plenty of life in the longevity risk market
Winners' Circle: Prudential Financial
Reinsurer of the year: Prudential Financial
Longevity cover for insurers secures second win for Prudential
Insurers turn to reinsurers for lapse risk cover
Assessing risk made difficult by behavioural influences
Insurance one of the last ‘great opportunities' for investors
Attractive returns to be found in reinsurance risk via insurance-linked securities
Patchy Solvency II implementation worries US regulator
Consistency might take time, says NAIC's head of international regulatory affairs
Terrorism risk act poses challenges for US monolines
Higher loss trigger will force smaller insurers to reassess risk appetite
Strategy for increasing the global capacity for longevity risk transfer
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Reinsurance: GreyCastle shows different approach for new capital
Rob Mannix speaks to GreyCastle chief executive about its deal with XL
Variable annuity sales recover in Japan as insurers revise hedging strategies
Simplified product design and buoyant equity markets combine to revive Japan VA market