[eng] The primary market : the institutional investors. The markets globalization led both to a globalization of the firms and to a specialization of the skills, among which the ones of an institutional investor. In France, the growing place of the intermediation of savings, as well as the...

This paper tells of the importance of capital for insurance companies and how, as a result of the crises of 2000–2003, they have learned to better manage their capital and risk. The Geneva Papers (2005) 30, 47–51. doi:10.1057/palgrave.gpp.2510017

Ageing populations in developed countries are being driven by strong social and structural demographic movements leading to a significant growth in the over 65 population. In the light of this, long-term care costs will be a major threat to individual assets and public finances over the next 40...

[eng] The twenty-eighth regime : a tool serving the integration of the retail banking services market . The single market of financial services is far from being completed. This situation is partly due to the limits of traditional instruments when employed for the market integration, such as...