Archive

  • PRA's funded re plans won't deter lifers using AIR for accessing esoteric assets

    01 May 2026

    Lawyers and actuaries do expect some impact on UK deal volumes, however

  • PRA plans for funded re part of global 'regulatory convergence', lawyers argue

    30 April 2026

    UK regulator issued proposals for funded re capital treatment yesterday

  • Comment - Is private credit exposure making US life insurers hedge funds' new 'Big Short'?

    29 April 2026

    Reports link US sector's growing interest in private credit, to growing short interests of hedge funds

  • PRA reveals plans for dealing with asset intensive reinsurance

    29 April 2026

    UK regulator cites private credit risk in deals, among reasons it is acting

  • NA lifers resilient in face of hypothetical private credit market stress, S&P Global Ratings says

    28 April 2026

    Agency's stress test finds only "extreme scenario" likely to impact significant proportion of firms' capital scores

  • APAC Weekly - Could APAC bushfires leap into the urban landscape?

    28 April 2026

    APAC insurers, and risk modellers, are facing up to the risk of 'urban conflagration'

  • German insurers welcome seismic pension reform - with caveats

    27 April 2026

    Germany's Riester Rente system was certainly in need of change, but practitioners aren't wholly convinced what's coming quite fits the bill...

  • Schroders' funds take leap forward with tokenisation in manager's ILS deal platform

    27 April 2026

    Hannover Re and manager collaborated since 2024 on innovation

  • Insurance buyers forecasting premiums are counselled to examine esoteric and mainstream investment markets

    23 April 2026

    From ILS and ILWs to ETFs, markets can help consumers of insurance predict direction of premiums

  • APAC Weekly - Japan's life association brings long-term view to investing and surveying

    21 April 2026

    How Japan's largest investors and listed local companies regard each other revealed