Underwriting: Enhanced Annuities
Article from Health and Ageing 32. Philip Wilson provides some guidance on how to assess the longevity of high-age impaired lives in order to correctly underwrite enhanced annuities.
How Can Life and Health Insurers Help Clients Facing Environmental Risks?
Steve Hales and Elisa Pestrin describe the main environmental health risks and investigate their impact on the life and health insurance industry.
A Matter of Style
Article from Health and Ageing 32. Florian Boeker reviews lifestyle risk trends and their dynamic and varied impact on life and health re/insurance.
Health Apps—Hype or Opportunity in the Risk Management of Life and Health Insurance?
European Union (2012) Luxembourg: Publications Office of the European Union, p. 10.
Joint GA/IIF Response to the FSB consultation on Developing Effective Resolution Strategies and Plans for Systemically Important Insurers
The Geneva Association (GA) and the Institute of International Finance (IIF) are pleased to submit our joint response to the FSB’s Consultative Document (CD) on “Developing Effective Resolution Strategies and Plans or Systemically Important Insurers” which was released on 3 November 2015. Our response reflects a joint effort of the members of our organizations.
Facts Versus Sentiment: Deals in the Insurance Sector
Special Issue January 2016
Facts Versus Sentiment: Deals in the Insurance Sector by Mark Wilson
Over my more than a quarter of a century in the insurance sector, I have bought dozens of companies and sold dozens of companies. One lesson I have learned is this: the deals that work are the deals that make strategic and financial sense. Strategy is only a method or way to a financial outcome. Deals must be underpinned by financials or they will and do fail. Take Aviva in 2011—weak on strategy, a weaker balance sheet than our peers and with a predilection for flag planting.
Influencing Outcomes in a Consolidating Insurance Industry: Three Keys to Value Creation
Special Issue January 2016
Influencing Outcomes in a Consolidating Insurance Industry: Three Keys to Value Creation by Pia Tischhauser
Perspectives on Consolidation in Insurance: ‘The Inside View’
Special Issue January 2016
Perspectives on Consolidation in Insurance: ‘The Inside View’ by Greg Taylor with Hugh Underwood
What is the Logic Behind Consolidation? And Does it Create Value? A View from the Outside
Special Issue January 2016
What is the Logic Behind Consolidation? And Does it Create Value? A View from the Outside by Brian Shea
Looking at deal volume in the global insurance sector, 2015 was off the charts. In this article we address two issues:
- The drivers of this consolidation—past, present and future.
- Does this activity create value?
Insurance Sector Investments and Their Impact on Financial Stability
This report is the latest in a series of Geneva Association white papers initiated in 2009 that contribute a fact-based analysis for the global discussions on insurance and financial stability. This report uses empirical evidence to examine whether potentially procyclical behaviour alleged to come from the insurance industry in market downturns could be systemically relevant.