Explicit guarantees are good for shareholders, policyholders and regulators: increased transparency. The risk management of capital market risks embedded in life (re) contracts is non-trivial. A bank-like operation (hedging platform) is needed for quantification, hedge design and controlling of...

What we like about Solvency II, Solvency II design issues, Developments in the US, Lessons learned from the current gloabl crisis...

This session is about the grwoing political influence - and sometimes what I would regard as interference - with liability insurance in Europe. To me, this is a growing problem and I don't know when it is going to end. It could, however, lead to a complete reshaping of liability insurance and i...