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  • Secret strategist: UK gov lacks "concrete" answers for encouraging investment

    07 August 2025

    In the wake of the 'Leeds Reforms' and the chancellor's Mansion House speech, a strategist at a European insurer tells Josh Adcock the tone is encouraging but the detail is missing

  • Gibraltar underwriter reveals debt default and trim to illiquid assets

    05 August 2025

    Mulsanne also, briefly, suffered a solvency ratio edging down towards 100%, during 2024

  • Insurers say EU and UK solvency reforms are too timid

    04 August 2025

    Has the PRA been "ludicrously slow" to adapt to growing insurer demand for private and productive assets, and is the European Commission following suit?

  • Please sir, we want some more... support to invest in UK productive assets

    28 July 2025

    ABI and Investment Delivery Forum call for more support amidst update against £100bn ten-year investment goal - despite PRA saying they have all they need

  • Private markets are not just for the largest insurers

    23 July 2025

    Small to mid-size insurers have grown their investments in private markets since 2019, Conning finds

  • Entries open for Insurance Asset Risk Awards 2025 - North Americas

    22 July 2025

    Entries are open until Monday 4 August 2025, 23:59 BST.

  • Vast majority of investors expect increased flows into Bitcoin and Ethereum ETFs

    16 July 2025

    12% expect dramatic increases over the year ahead

  • FX reserve bolstering worth NT$ 188bn continues at Taiwan's lifers

    14 July 2025

    High volatility hit the Taiwan/US dollar cross in May

  • Comment - Are today's insurers hedge funds in disguise?

    11 July 2025

    Any segmentation of 'banks', then 'the rest', risks ignoring singular hallmarks of insurance investors

  • COTW: Some insurers are more equal than others in the face of €500bn allocation to privates

    11 July 2025

    Geographies and a firm's size carries different implications, Moody's Ratings explains