systemic risk

The Geneva Association, a leading international insurance think tank for strategically important insurance and risk management issues, has offered its opinion to the International Association of Insurance Supervisors (IAIS) on their work to identify globally systemic insurers and insurance activities. The IAIS have proposed a methodology to identify systemic riskiness in the insurance and reinsurance […]

The International Association of Insurance Supervisors (IAIS) have published a follow up to their November 2011 paper on the insurance and reinsurance sectors and whether they contribute to global systemic risk. The latest paper looks specifically at reinsurance and concerns related to whether there are connections between reinsurance and broader financial stability. It looks at […]

Our regular readers might remember that we wrote about a paper that the International Association of Insurance Supervisors (IAIS) had published in November which provided their thoughts on how the re/insurance industry interacts with the wider financial markets. The paper discussed systemic risk from re/insurers and identified insurance-linked securities and catastrophe bonds as instruments that […]

The International Association of Insurance Supervisors (IAIS) has published a paper today which provides their perspective on the role of the re/insurance industry and its interaction with the wider financial markets. The report suggests that the more re/insurers get involved in non-traditional techniques of risk transfer the more likely they are to pose global systemic […]