Regulation Standards

UK pension schemes should consider appointing an independent professional trustee (IPT) to help navigate increasingly complex risks, according to a new governance guide published today.

The IFRS 17 accounting standard is expected to cost the global insurance industry up to $20bn (£14bn) to implement, a survey by Willis Towers Watson (WTW) has uncovered.

On behalf of the General Insurance Board and Solvency II Working Party, Amerjit Grewal shares members’ views on how Solvency II regulation could be tweaked to better serve a post-Brexit UK

More than eight in 10 pension trustees in the UK believe they will need to make significant changes to comply with the Pensions Regulator's (TPR) new code of practice once it is finalised.

Pension schemes, insurance companies, asset managers and banks will all be forced to disclose their financial exposure to climate change by 2025 under new rules unveiled by the UK chancellor Rishi Sunak yesterday.

Simon Wasserman and Matthew Myring-McCullagh explain the importance of the Joint Forum on Actuarial Regulation’s Risk Perspective publication

Kunj Behari Maheshwari and Brian Ring discuss considerations for excluding factors that do not impact insurance cashflows but may influence observable prices in emerging market discount rates

Patrick Kelliher covers issues in modelling dependencies between operational and non-operational risks

The International Accounting Standards Board (IASB) has published amendments to IFRS 17 to help companies implement the standard and more easily explain their financial performance.

Pau Ling Yap and Paolo Cadoni on the recently agreed reforms that aim to improve supervision of internationally active insurance groups