We explore whether life insurers use a unique reinsurance arrangement to manage their regulatory capital. Typical reinsurance arrangements allow insurers to reduce their regulatory capital by transferring liabilities, and the associated assets, to reinsurers. With modified coinsurance, insurers...

The aim of this paper is to develop an alternative approach for assessing an insurer's solvency as a proposal for a standard model for Solvency II. Instead of deriving minimum capital requirements – as is done in solvency regulation – our model provides company-specific minimum standards for...