Insurance
Are Long-term Guarantees measures levelling the field for insurance companies in Europe?
di Emilio Barucci
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Feb
09
2019
The 2018 Eiopa Report on Long-term Guarantees measures and measures on equity risk was released in December 2018. The analysis refers to data at 31 December 2017, the following measures were investigated: Matching Adjustments (MA), Volatility Adjustmens (VA), Symmetric adjustment meachanism to the equity risk ...more »
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The Revised EIOPA Single Programming Document 2019-2021 with Annual Work Programme 2019
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Feb
09
2019
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Gen
18
2019
The Packaged Retail and Insurance-based Investment Products (PRIIPs) Regulation went live with MiFID II in January 2018, introducing requirements for firms to disclose specific information on certain investment products or services. The regulation’s main objective is to help investors assess the money value of these ...more »
Gen
04
2019
As required by Article #9 of EIOPA’s founding regulation, the Authority shall collect and report on consumer trends with the aim of identifying risks for the customers arising from trends in the market that may require policy proposals or supervisory actions. EIOPA publishes a Consumer ...more »
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Dic
16
2018
The European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Authority (EIOPA) published today the results of its 2018 and fourth Stress Test for the European insurance sector. This year’s exercise assessed the participating insurers’ resilience to the following three severe but plausible scenarios: A yield curve up ...more »
Dic
08
2018
Insurers have made increasing use of cloud computing in recent years. Cloud services were initially applied to business support functions, such as customer management or collaboration applications. Currently, cloud computing is being used in core business functions, such as product development, distribution, underwriting or claims ...more »
Nov
24
2018
The Solvency II directive requires a review of the long-term (LTG) measures and the measures on equity risk until end of 2020.* The LTG measures are: the extrapolation of risk-free interest rates, the matching adjustment (MA), the volatility adjustment (VA), the extension of the recovery ...more »
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IVASS: Bollettino Statistico – Ottobre 2018
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Ott
27
2018
L’Istituto per la vigilanza sulle assicurazioni (IVASS) ha redatto lo scorso 25 ottobre il tredicesimo Bollettino statistico annuale. Il Bollettino riguarda l’attività assicurativa in Italia nel comparto auto delle imprese vigilate dall’IVASS (imprese nazionali e Rappresentanze per l’Italia di imprese con sede legale in uno ...more »
Asset management under a minimum guarantee for life insurance products
di Emilio Barucci e Daniele Marazzina
Posted in: Articolo
Ott
06
2018
Life insurance products are often characterized by a minimum guarantee: the insurance company manages funds guaranteeing a minimum return to policyholders (with profit products). In a recent paper with Elisa Mastrogiacomo we investigated how the presence of a minimum guarantee affects the asset manager’s strategy ...more »
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Interest rates volatility in the insurance liabilities evaluation
di Silvia dell’Acqua
Posted in: Articolo
Set
08
2018
Under Solvency II (SII), insurance and reinsurance companies have to evaluate their assets and liabilities following harmonized principles, among which the discounting of the liabilities cash flows through a risk free interest rates yield curve, that EIOPA has been publishing on a monthly basis since ...more »
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