All Insurance articles – Page 7
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Special Report
Insurance-Linked Investments: Berkshire’s leverage
Andrea Frazzini, David Kabiller and Lasse H Pedersen unpick Warren Buffett’s business model and find a low-beta quality portfolio leveraged with an insurance float and derivatives
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Special Report
Insurance-Linked Investments: Doctor in the house?
Lynn Strongin Dodds outlines the importance of quality medical underwriting and ongoing assessment of life expectancies in the traded life policy world
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Special Report
Insurance-Linked Investments: Appetite for catastrophe
Investors cannot get enough of the catastrophe bond market, writes Charlotte Moore, but the potential for equilibrium, albeit at lower returns, is there
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News
European Commission appoints new head for pensions, insurance unit
EUROPE – Austrian national moves 'horizontally' to replace industry veteran Karel Van Hulle.
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News
EU to examine 'barriers' to cross-border insurance pension products
EUROPE – Expert group to look into effect of contract law differences in various member states.
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Features
Insurance inspiration
Building an internal model under Solvency II costs time and money. Cécile Sourbes asks what pension funds can learn as insurers edge towards implementing the new framework
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IP Asia
Risk management for insurance companies
Wing-Gar Cheng looks at the greater needs of insurance companies in today’s market.
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News
Ireland's Social Insurance Fund shows 'significant' shortfall
IRELAND – Actuarial review predicts shortfall will expand to 6% of GDP by 2066.
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Country Report
UK: Reassurance needed, not insurance
As longevity improves and fewer people are saving for pensions, Malcolm McLean argues for the industry to rebuild confidence
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Features
Different policies on insurance
Using insurance firms to provide protection for pension fund liabilities is a popular solution among DB schemes. Gail Moss looks at the various forms these insurance policies can take
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IP Asia
Plans for Broader, Deeper Insurance Market
Individual components of the 12th Five-year plan are steadily emerging, the latest of which relates to the insurance industry. Iain Mills reports
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Country Report
Belgium: On the road to insurance
As the cracks become more visible across the Belgian political landscape, Nina Roehrbein reports on how pension funds are dealing with their own volatility issues
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Features
The market challenge of insurance
Sarah Dudney outlines success factors critical for asset managers operating in the insurance industry
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Features
Re-examining pensions guaranty insurance
The UK’s Pension Protection Fund is a good illustration of poor institutional design. Full cover insurance of pensions is both feasible and theoretically sound, argues Con Keating
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Features
Novel approach hits problems
The aggressive strategy adopted by speicalist pension manager, Pension Corporation, to gain control of pension funds, has attracted plaudits and criticism as David White reports
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Features
An alternative to ordinary mandatory insurance funds
The Frjálsi Pension Fund was established in 1978 and is one of the oldest and largest non-mandatory pension funds in Iceland, Traditionally, pension funds in Iceland have used all of the 10% mandatory contribution to provide coinsurance rights but the founders of the scheme wanted to create an alternative to ...
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Features
'IKEA of pensions insurance'
The pension insurance society for Sweden’s central government employees, commonly known as Kåpan, is currently at the centre of a switch from DB to DC systems. Kåpan, whose official name is FSO, was started 10 years ago to provide pension insurance for 220,000 members of three leading trade unions. In ...