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01 December 2025 - by Eamonn Phelan, Rik van Beers, Nia Powis, Gaétan Gellens
We present a robust scenario selection framework that helps (re)insurers streamline stress and scenario testing.
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22 October 2025 - by Rik van Beers, Rens IJsendijk, Fernando Mierzejewski
We summarize our main observations from an analysis of the 2024 solvency and condition reports of Belgian insurers.
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19 December 2024 - by Rik van Beers, Sijbo Holtman, Rens IJsendijk
We give an overview of our main observations resulting from analysing the 2023 SFCRs of 45 Belgian insurers, selected based on their total assets.
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26 September 2023 - by Rik van Beers, Rens IJsendijk, Emilie Perrin
We offer some insight on the year-end 2022 SFCRs for life, non-life and composite insurers based in Belgium.
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04 May 2023 - by Rik van Beers, Conor Callaghan
Most European insurers will need to implement pre-emptive recovery plans due to the new IRRD, but the exercise can yield some invaluable insights on operations.
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09 March 2023 - by Maarten Ruissaard, Joost Broens, Freek Zandbergen, Rik van Beers, Sinéad Clarke, Stijn Donckers
We discuss how the increased interest rate environment creates uncertainty, affecting economic scenarios, capital requirements, and stress and scenario testing.
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21 February 2023 - by Maarten Ruissaard, Joost Broens, Freek Zandbergen, Rik van Beers, Stijn Donckers
Changes to UFR drag are not solely driven by the variance in market rates, but also to changes in their level and slope, and a second order extrapolation effect
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10 February 2023 - by Rik van Beers, Kurt Lambrechts, Dominik Sznajder, Emilie Perrin
A look at life, non-life and composite insurers based in Belgium shows solvency coverage ratios edging up two percentage points to 199% for year-end 2021.
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27 January 2023 - by Maarten Ruissaard, Joost Broens, Freek Zandbergen, Rik van Beers, Stijn Donckers
We discuss the developments in the interest rate markets over 2022 and how the increases have affected the level of liability discount rates for insurers.
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15 January 2021 - by Rik van Beers