Archive

  • Private debt at the forefront of insurers' continued advance into private markets

    10 April 2024

    According to global insurance survey by Mercer and Oliver Wyman

  • Are infrastructure fund managers expecting more from Solvency UK reforms than insurers are willing to deliver?

    10 April 2024

    Octopus Renewables "cautiously optimistic", but PIC does not plan anything "radical"

  • Outsourcing switch to BlackRock buoys capital surplus at LV

    08 April 2024

    Lifer points to "future cost benefit arising from the appointment" of manager for lower-fee work

  • UK ground-rent consultation hits M&G's Solvency II surplus and with-profits assets

    08 April 2024

    Whitehall is discussing capping ground rents, which M&G has loan-based investments in

  • French insurers launch biodiversity investing initiative

    02 April 2024

    Group will issue a call to asset managers by the end of July 2024 for innovative methods of taking biodiversity into account

  • Comment - How to find the alpha to omega of who runs investments at Chinese insurers

    26 March 2024

    From stress test parameters to investment team names, C-Ross rules seem to be creating extraordinary transparency

  • Tokio Marine affiliated manager foresees 10-year JGB yields at 1.5%

    26 March 2024

    TMAM expects "at least one" more interest rate hike in 2024

  • IRDAI announces massive cut in volume of insurance rules, including for investments

    26 March 2024

    Announcement came as part of a "comprehensive review of the regulatory framework"

  • EU Solvency II reforms and a return to low rates could make a sour mix for insurers' solvency ratios, Moody's says

    22 March 2024

    Ratings agency says reforms more reflective of insurers' risks

  • Chart of the Week: Why Rome should relax its 5% cap on loans and mortgage exposures for insurers

    15 March 2024

    Researcher Agostino Tripodi finds some sub-optimal GA allocation going on, in shadow of local-law limits on L&M holdings