Insurance – Page 8
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Country Report
UK: Reassurance needed, not insurance
As longevity improves and fewer people are saving for pensions, Malcolm McLean argues for the industry to rebuild confidence
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Features
Different policies on insurance
Using insurance firms to provide protection for pension fund liabilities is a popular solution among DB schemes. Gail Moss looks at the various forms these insurance policies can take
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IP Asia
Plans for Broader, Deeper Insurance Market
Individual components of the 12th Five-year plan are steadily emerging, the latest of which relates to the insurance industry. Iain Mills reports
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Country Report
Belgium: On the road to insurance
As the cracks become more visible across the Belgian political landscape, Nina Roehrbein reports on how pension funds are dealing with their own volatility issues
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FeaturesThe market challenge of insurance
Sarah Dudney outlines success factors critical for asset managers operating in the insurance industry
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FeaturesRe-examining pensions guaranty insurance
The UK’s Pension Protection Fund is a good illustration of poor institutional design. Full cover insurance of pensions is both feasible and theoretically sound, argues Con Keating
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Features
Novel approach hits problems
The aggressive strategy adopted by speicalist pension manager, Pension Corporation, to gain control of pension funds, has attracted plaudits and criticism as David White reports
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Features
An alternative to ordinary mandatory insurance funds
The Frjálsi Pension Fund was established in 1978 and is one of the oldest and largest non-mandatory pension funds in Iceland, Traditionally, pension funds in Iceland have used all of the 10% mandatory contribution to provide coinsurance rights but the founders of the scheme wanted to create an alternative to ...
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Features
'IKEA of pensions insurance'
The pension insurance society for Sweden’s central government employees, commonly known as Kåpan, is currently at the centre of a switch from DB to DC systems. Kåpan, whose official name is FSO, was started 10 years ago to provide pension insurance for 220,000 members of three leading trade unions. In ...
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Features
Using insurance to wrap stakeholder pensions
The recently launched stakeholder pensions in the UK look set to have a significant impact on the balance of power between asset managers and insurance companies. While the asset managers won substantial business with the growth of the defined contribution (DC) market, the different requirements demanded by stakeholder pensions are ...
