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Tuesday, 20 September 2011

IRM principles on Risk Appetite and lessons from UBS

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Pretty interesting finish to last week, with UBS getting spanked for a cool $2.3bn through the now-typical route of a back office know-it-a...
Friday, 16 September 2011

Active Risk - 'What makes a great Risk Manager' results...

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I participated in a survey a little while back about "what makes a great risk manager" which involved looking at personality trait...
Thursday, 15 September 2011

AON Report on Regulatory, Accounting and Rating Agency critera changes

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A decent piece from AON covering influences of Solvency II (amongst other similarly flavoured risk-based capital regulatory influences), IF...

IRM Risk Appetite Guidance released

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Closely associated with the last post, the IRM have pushed out the results of their consultation on Risk Appetite . I'll pick through th...
Wednesday, 14 September 2011

Society of Actuaries in Ireland - newsletter treats

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As ever, the Society of Actuaries in Ireland produced a riveting read this month , with some hot topics covered very succinctly, and useful ...
Wednesday, 7 September 2011

Chief Risk Officer activity

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LV+ got in on the CRO staffing activity in advance of Solvency II this week, pitching a finance-oriented executive into the role, with a rem...

CEA releases - SIFIs and ComFrame

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The CEA got busy this week with a double release, covering their feedback on the IAIS's ComFrame proposals for group supervision, and f...
Friday, 2 September 2011

Financial Reporting Council - new guidance on company stewardship and public reporting

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Just in case you UK insurers don't have enough to factor in to your next annual report and accounts (least of all commencing the alignme...
Thursday, 1 September 2011

Article - Journey's end for Solvency II

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Well researched article in Financial Risks Today (including a name check for yours truly!) is worth a look - it covers quite a lot of groun...

Leadership, psychos and moon faces

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On the corporate governance front, please be on the look out for any psychopaths or wide faced execs who may be the causes of your strateg...
Wednesday, 31 August 2011

Solvency II and asset allocation - mixed messages

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There seems to have been a suite of materials on Solvency II and predicted asset allocation impacts recently, from the great and good ( Gide...

FTSE Insurers - last but not least...

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Having tried on a number of occasions to complete the traipse through FTSE interims for Solvency II progress and mistakenly thought I was ...

ERM benchmarking - Accenture - "High-performance insurer of the future"

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A decent effort from the guys at Accenture on identifying and explaining the kinds of strategies which in their mind will separate the insu...

Think piece from CII - rethinking risk management (Solvency II angle)

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In the context of the FSA's perceived wish to have more mathematicians in charge of Insurance company risk functions, it is always nice...
Wednesday, 24 August 2011

Gender Diversity on Boards - the drive continues...

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Lots on gender diversity this week, which I keep a watching brief on for obvious corporate governance purposes as well as impact on the post...

FT report on listed insurer's capital trends

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Just in case anyone missed out on Monday, the FT provided a quality summary on perceived advance capital planning by UK and EU insurers ahe...

Implications of financial regulatory reform for the insurance industry - IIF and Oliver Wyman Paper

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I managed to get a good look at the paper reported widely last week  on how Basel III and Solvency II appear to have conflicting end-games, ...
Friday, 19 August 2011

Bermuda, Solvency II and equivalence (and some US comment)

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No doubt you would have seen the release of EIOPA's equivalence work to date on Japan, Switzerland and Bermuda. Summary articles here ...

Irish Corporate Governance Code for captives

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The Central Bank of Ireland pushed out the Corporate Governance Code for Captives this week, which is to all intents and purposes a lightly...
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Tuesday, 16 August 2011

FTSE Insurers - last interim result (I think!) and Solvency II progress

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Resolution/Friends Life, the darlings of the disclosure world, released their half year results today (there is a location check on the way...