Insurance and the Question of “Too Big To Fail”

More from the FT, which provides an interesting update on the initiative to identify globally systemically important insurers.  Plans drawn up by the International Association of Insurance Supervisors are described as being “incoherent, impractical and simplistic” by the industry, which expresses particular concern about the intention to include variable annuities on the list of activities that are “non-insurance”, “non-traditional” or “semi-traditional” and hence subject to increased capital requirements.