Regulation
L&G review orphan assets but rule out Equitable deal
Legal and General ruled itself out of the bidding for Equitable Life yesterday on the day the beleagu...
Training initiative.
Four industry bodies have teamed up to develop training and competence toolkits for financial advise...
Equitas surplus up.
Equitas, set up to reinsure and run off the 1992 and prior years' on-life liabilities of Lloyd's syn...
ECGD review a missed opportunity
The International Underwriting Association believes the government missed an opportunity in its revie...
Insurers get green light from FSA over inheritance
The Financial Services Authority has given the thumbs up to Axa's proposed transfer of the policies a...
Insurers welcome ruling on suing barristers
Barristers have been stripped of the immunity that they have enjoyed for two centuries following a la...
Paddick to push ahead with regulatory plan
Andrew Paddick, director general of the Institute of Insurance Brokers has written to brokers confirm...
Equitas increases reserves
Equitas, the company set up by Lloyd's to reinsure and run off its pre-1993 non-life liabilities, has...
Trans-Atlantic teaming.
General insurance actuary English Matthews Brockman and US actuarial consultancy Miller Herbers Lehm...
GISC is not for turning.
The General Insurance Standards Council will not reverse its initial recommendations on solvency req...
Charity begins at the office for database.
The Unclaimed Assets Register is to share 10% of all search fees it earns between the three charitie...
FSA's Canary chat.
The Financial Services Authority is to hold a pilot annual meeting at its offices in Canary Wharf, L...
... a local authority risk manager.
David Worsfold spent a day with Ian Horwood, Wycombe District Council's risk manager, and finds a man both persistant and passionate about his job.
RSA on track to save £20m.
Insurer Royal & Sun Alliance claims it is on target to save £20m following the completion of the fir...
Carrol re-elected.
Tim Carrol has been re-elected chairman of the International Underwrting Association of London. Mr C...
Tell us something we don't know.
Financial exclusion is a crucial issue that has rightly risen up the political agenda in the last fe...
Actuarial joint venture targets insurers
English Matthews Brockman, the general insurance actuary, has signed a co-operation agreement with US...
Ace International makes on-line alliance
Ace International, the direct insurance operation of Bermuda-based reinsurer Ace, has entered into an...
Aviation reshuffle at Aon.
Broker Aon is reorganising is aviation division with the launch of Aviation Consultancy and Reinsura...
GISC to revisit solvency concerns of brokers.
The recently launched General Insurance Standards Council will address the issue of solvency require...
EU's plan for sector.
The European Union plans to review how to manage a single market in financial services by establishi...
Insurers face $3bn payouts.
Insurers face multi-billion payouts if a petition filed in the US state of California linked to the ...
Part-timers clock up more rights.
Changes to the rules governing part-time workers could catch some businesses un-awares if they don't know the pitfalls, says John McQueen.
Stop this slide into subsidence madness.
The Association of British Insurers and loss/risk consultants Resolve International seem agreed that...