Why was risk management not effective in preventing financial institutions from bubbles in the past? 1. Because the emerge of the bubbles were not recognized at all. 2. Because risk managers did not have sufficient authority to stop the nonsense....

We present an approach to capture group-level diversification using legally binding capital and risk transfer instruments. The approach is used by the Swiss Solvency Test to quantify both group-level capital requirements and capital requirements for subsidiaries of insurance groups. The Geneva...

This paper considers a traditional problem of resource allocation: scheduling jobs on machines. One such recent application is cloud computing, where jobs arrive in an online fashion with capacity requirements and need to be immediately scheduled on physical machines in data centers. It is often...

This Geneva Association “insurance reader on the credit crisis” has been put togetheras a reaction to the widespread demand for reliable information on and an intellectualappreciation of the insurance sector’s involvement in the credit crisis. Since the end of2007, The Geneva Association...

At the General Assembly of the Geneva Association held 28-31 May 2008 in Hamilton, Bermuda, the CEOs of the world's leading insurance and reinsurance companies decided to launch a new research project on climate change and its economic impact on insurance (CC+I). This initiative reflects one of...

Insurers and banks are both suppliers of financial services and constitute together thebulk of the financial services industry. As such, they share certain common traits and,consequently, are often analyzed together. At the same time, they differ markedly in certainrespects, insurance and...