Significant effort has to date gone into determining IFRS 17 discount curves and applicable liquidity premiums. However, valuing liabilities under the specified discount curve, particularly where stochastic valuation principles apply, presents its own set of challenges that insurers are now grappling with

Moody’s Capital Tool – Overview

• Presentation of the tool and use of proxy functions to accelerate simulations
• Why the introduction of the tool will not impact ratings
• A range of outputs can be used to enhance analysis and inform credit discussions

Day one explores the opportunities and challenges of APAC’s evolving insurance business model and Moody’s outlook on individual markets

Day two delves into investment challenges Japanese asset managers are facing and Japan’s potential new economic-value based regulation

Day three focuses on some challenges life insurers face in practicing good asset-liability management

Day four explores the key environmental risks China insurers are contending with and how APAC insurers incorporate ESG considerations in their business strategy

Day five dives into China’s refined capital regime and the latest trends in insurance asset management

Join Moody’s and Christoph Jurecka, Chief Financial Officer at Munich Re, as we examine how COVID has impacted business models, how and why the insurance industry is going through a phase of business transformation

Join Moody’s and Ericson Chan, Group Chief Information and Digital Officer at Zurich Insurance Group, as we discuss digital transformation, technologies to enable these changes and top priorities for streamlining both the customer and partner experience

Join to listen to our macro credit view impact and recovery outlook for a post-COVID Europe, as well as a comparison overview on the default cycles. 

Then Olivier Guigné, Director of Investments at CNP will join us to look at what we have learnt from the pandemic, how social and technological transformation and regulatory compliance constraints are impacting investment decisions

Join us to discuss the key challenges facing insurers as they respond to climate risk and the evolving regulatory approach

Insurance CEOs explore changing market, competitive and operating conditions, with the pace of change accelerated by the coronavirus pandemic. We will discuss lessons learned in the past year and what will drive success in the years ahead

The coronavirus has accelerated technology investments across the insurance industry. We will discuss key trends around the customer experience and digitation, elevated cyber risks and the promise of artificial intelligence and machine learning

Insurers search for yield in a low rate environment. In a rapidly evolving world, insurers prepare for future uncertainty related to interest rates and the credit cycle. Private credit, commercial real estate, and alternatives bring opportunity, but also risk

Environmental, social and governance considerations are increasingly important to business leaders, customers, regulators and investors. We will discuss how ESG factors are affecting insurers’ investments, underwriting, business practices and community involvement

The sessions will feature thought leaders from the Insurance industry and Moody’s to discuss the implications of NAIC C1 changes on RBC capital, Credit Portfolio Management (CPM) and asset allocation