Archive

  • APAC Weekly - India opens GA-floodgates for local investments, or maybe not...

    04 February 2025

    India's federal budget for 2025/2026 is removing the FDI cap for insurers, but with GA-strings attached. CUOs may love it, but will CIOs take the bait?

  • Will the NAIC's new regulations change insurer's attitudes to private credit investments?

    03 February 2025

    David Zhang, director at New York-based advisory firm MSCI, discusses how US insurers are coping with a torrent of new regulation from the NAIC

  • "Phenomenal" change predicted in insurance investments from Indian budget

    03 February 2025

    Finance minister announced country's 2025/2026 budget on weekend

  • UK insurers will struggle to meet government's investment hopes for UK PLC, CreditSights says

    23 January 2025

    In addition to risk of becoming a proxy for investors to short UK sovereigns

  • APAC Weekly - APAC's public natcat reinsurers watch California (tie itself in knots)

    21 January 2025

    State's lawmakers may have shot their state in the foot with well-meaning rules to shore up insurance

  • The NAIC is cooking up a hearty bowl of reform, how should US insurers prepare for the meal?

    20 January 2025

    From risk-based capital to GEMS and the Insurer Investment Regulation Framework, 2025 could be a busy year

  • Phoenix Group calls for even more risk-friendly MA sandbox

    15 January 2025

    Comments in Parliamentary select committee hearing suggest regulatory culture shift needed to encouraging competitiveness and growth

  • The bond definition is live and "the times they are a-changin'"

    15 January 2025

    Amnon Levy, CEO at Bridgeway Analytics, considers the changes the NAIC's new bond definition could bring to the sector, and how they can be managed

  • APAC Weekly - Why LA's burning matters for APAC insurers

    14 January 2025

    Wildfires reveal connectedness of global insurance industry

  • Local share falls trim equity risk capital bill in South Korea

    14 January 2025

    Domestic equities shed 7% of value in Q3 2024