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Insurers caught up in the Swiss bad apple
22 March 2023The bad news seeping out of the US in the wake of SVB was magnified this month by the fall of Credit Suisse. The damage to insurers' portfolios to this once august banking institution is for now not too bad. Could there be worse to come? Sarfraz Thind reports
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The return to the promised land
20 March 2023After a decade of eking out pitiful returns on their traditional fixed income assets insurers are finally seeing the return of higher interest rates. Will this herald a shift out of risky assets? A recent publication by the NAIC outlines the possibilities. Sarfraz Thind reports
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Global Atlantic's CIO talks shop
15 March 2023Anup Agarwal, CIO, explains why Global Atlantic does not support US insurance regulators proposed changes on structured assets' capital charges calibrations. Interview by Sarfraz Thind
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The CBIRC's legacy - a safe pair of hands for Chinese insurance regulation
14 March 2023The CBIRC is reportedly being dissolved and its duties transferred. David Walker finds an industry praising the modernising, improving impetus behind its work on C-ROSS Phase II, to benefit risk management and China's society more generally
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Comment: NAIC's CLO Model - A communal path to policy design
22 February 2023By Amnon Levy and Brett Manning
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Comment - BMA picks up the 'big stick' for Bermuda's CIOs
13 February 2023The regulator's announcement on illiquids and alternatives was all-stick-no-carrot, but will the BMA bite not just bark, at CIOs?
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Having fun with private equity investments
30 January 2023A small French mutual insurer tells Insurance Asset Risk how it has become one of the few insurers to make the most of the long-term equity rule in Solvency II... and how it had fun in the process. Vincent Huck reports
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CIOs prepare for 'symmetric warfare' over listed shareholdings
18 January 2023Europe's regulators are discussing almost doubling how far they allow the equities 'symmetric adjustment' to fluctuate. David Walker examines the implications for CIOs' capital consumption
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Comment - Does a CIO need to be 'truly' brave?
16 January 2023Investing can take a steely nerve, but David Walker explores why it sometimes also requires true bravery
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Unbundling risk, liquidity and alternatives in Bermuda
14 December 2022On the back of the regulator's announcement of its intention to ramp up scrutiny on Bermudians' illiquid investments, insurers discuss their approach to alternative asset classes and the 'loose' concept of illiquidity. Vincent Huck reports