Reinsurance

Yiannis Parizas discusses an alternative approach to modelling excess levels in regressions

The International Accounting Standards Board (IASB) has agreed by a significant majority to discuss changing several key aspects of IFRS 17 insurance contracts.

Studies show consumers and providers view a with-profits benefits statement in different ways, so should we be communicating value more clearly? Rosalind Rossouw and Ben Stroud investigate.

Insurers need to become catalysts for innovation in order to drive growth across Africa, writes Tavaziva Madzinga

The global catastrophe market has proved itself a powerful force in reinsurance.Thomas Johansmeyer reports on its performance

Thomas Johansmeyer considers how reinsurers should react to the growing number of unexpected events during the past few years

The UK government is to increase the Ogden discount rate to counteract the 2017 reduction, which caused motor insurance and reinsurance premiums to rise significantly. Mohammad Khan, Sundip Mistry and Andrew Corner explore how uncertainty around this change affects insurers

Dr Quintin Rayer looks at how putting portfolios through stress testing can ensure that trustees are actively working to protect their assets from extreme market events

Insurers perennially cite a pandemic as one of the major risks they face, but are the industry's modelling approaches keeping pace with the wider body of available knowledge? Matthew Edwards and Richard Marshall investigate

The soft cycle in reinsurance has continued longer than many reinsurers expected in the past few years, according to a report published by Standard and Poor’s (S&P).