Archive

  • US West Coast insurers face up to $40bn in corporate bonds climate- related losses

    07 February 2024

    Research commissioned by California's regulator has found

  • Actuaries give cautious welcome to Whitehall's private assets push

    12 July 2023

    Chancellor of Exchequer wants institutions to buy more into unlisted companies

  • Planet's future being run on woeful risk margins compared to Solvency II's, Louise Pryor warns

    19 June 2023

    Actuaries Carbon Collaboration co-chair urges peers that actuaries do not close their eyes to risks

  • CPD regime fails to engender 'growth mindset' necessary for UK actuaries, IFoA says

    13 June 2023

    UK actuaries' association admits "guilt" in not pushing lifelong learning

  • Chart of the week - German insurers' 'happiest' line of underwriting

    29 July 2022

    A clue: Germans are not most joyful when in traditional policy units, GDV finds

  • California not to consider boosted climate disclosures bill

    20 April 2022

    Insurance commissioner Lara under NGOs' scrutiny ahead of elections

  • Ricardo Lara reveals California's fossil fuel investors

    19 April 2022

    Green bond holders also unearthed in annual study

  • The year USA investors woke to social investing

    24 August 2020

    The COVID-19 pandemic has affected the most vulnerable parts of society and highlighted social inequalities globally. In the USA, this combined with the death of George Floyd and the revitalisation of the Black Lives Matter movement, has prompted insurers to embrace 'social investing'. But is this a long-term trend or a one-off? Sarfraz Thind asks.

  • Equity-release mortgage profits questioned in new valuation approach

    15 July 2019

    Dean Buckner and Kevin Dowd’s report on ERM valuation casts doubt on the ability for some loans to make money.

  • Ifrs 17 - accuracy over clarity

    14 February 2019

    Colin Dutkiewicz, chair of the life board at the UK Institute and Faculty of Actuaries cuts through the complexity of accounting standard Ifrs 17, examining its potential impact on insurers' investment strategies and asset allocation, as well as on their overall operations. Interview by Vincent Huck