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Longevity, Reserves, and Annuities—A Difficult Circle to Square

With life expectancy increasing at the rate of 12 minutes per hour, the cost of funding pensions is going up all the time. Sponsors and scheme trustees need to react with care.
Understanding and Calculating Probable Maximum Loss (PML)

This article describes what probable maximum loss is and how it is calculated.
The Insurance Sector: Plenty Of Silver Lining To Be Found

Despite the high-profile disaster of AIG, the insurance sector came out of the crash in much better shape than the banks. However, it still has to face the challenges posed by the downturn.
Stress Testing to Evaluate Insurance Cover

This article outlines ways to ensure that insurance policies provide the kind of robust protection businesses need to protect them against risks, both physical and financial.
Islamic Insurance Markets and the Structure of Takaful

Insurance for Islamic customers has to conform to shariah practices and be "approved" as avoiding interest and abiding by strictures against gambling and "gharar" or uncertainty.

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Key Concepts provide you with definitions of buzzwords appearing in the media to ensure that you are up to speed with the current finance conversation. Produced in snapshot, glossary form, Key Concepts direct you to additional material to increase your knowledge and satisfy your interest.

Longevity Insurance
Longevity insurance is designed to protect pension funds against the costs of its pensioners living longer than expected. In 2006, there were reports that the global market in trading the “longevity risk” faced by pension funds could eventually outstrip the huge credit derivatives market. However, it took until 2009 for the concept to be first launched when Babcock International and RSA in the UK became the first companies to take out longevity...

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