S&P offers courses in analysing insurance companies

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Credit ratings agency Standard & Poor's is hosting a week of courses starting on 1 November focused on understanding credit risk of life and non-life insurers.

It is the fifth year the courses are offered in this way, and the company says IFAs are very much a target audience, along with insurers, actuaries, reinsurers, insurance brokers and underwriters. Topics covered include: trends and issues in insurance; risk-based capital analysis; accounting for insurance; reinsurance; analytical tools; life insurance policy types; accounting of life insurance business; risk characteristics of life insurers; management and corporate strategy; liquidity, investments and capitalisation; industry risk. These topics are also linked in to reg...

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