Reinsurance
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
Sponsored feature: Prudential Retirement
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
Sponsored video: Societe Generale
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
Aviva longevity swap raises questions for intermediaries
Insurer goes direct to reinsurers for £5 billion pension scheme risk transfer
Stochastic modelling of reinsurance credit risk
Stochastic modelling of reinsurance credit risk
Reinsurance sidecars evolving as competition for third-party capital hots up
Sidecars mimicking ILS funds to lure investors entering collateralised reinsurance space
Renewables expected to drive demand for weather derivatives
Weather risk management firms predict renewables and thinner energy market liquidity will drive growth
Insurers target value-in-force monetisation transactions to boost regulatory capital
But securitisations still a challenge, say experts
Banks offer combined reinsurance and hedging solution to Japan VA providers
Following risk management failures in the financial crisis, Japanese variable annuity providers’ new VA offerings include conservative investment objectives and sophisticated hedging strategies, combined with reinsurance
US funds seeing ‘increasing demand’ for pension risk management
Pension funds in the US are becoming increasingly aware of the need for pension risk management and pension risk transfers, as new pension regulations are implemented
Suncorp’s risk controls and ops face up to Queensland floods
Withstanding disaster