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  • AM Best suggests time is running out for PE/AM to buy into US annuity industry

    13 April 2026

    Profits from a key product PE/AM-owned insurers used face tougher conditions in future

  • Apollo highlights "very small" average levered loan exposure of US insurers

    08 April 2026

    AM Best highlights reinsurance by Athene as contributor to US lifers' total income rise in 2025

  • APAC Weekly - How 'DEI by stealth' is paying off at Japan's insurers

    17 March 2026

    In the past five weeks Japan's insurers might, unknowingly, have just set a new industry record.

  • US life annuity underwriters have doubled private credit holdings since 2014

    22 October 2025

    AM Best says risk management, amid continued growth, is "critical"

  • KKR and Quadrantis to buy minority stakes in Peak Re

    22 October 2025

    KKR is already active buying insurance industry firms elsewhere in APAC

  • AM Best warns about threat to Taiwan's lifers as volatility hits FX

    09 May 2025

    US/Taiwan dollar cross-rate jolted by 8% in two days

  • Comment: Chinese insurers hear Beijing loud and clear: "Back AI"

    26 March 2025

    Influential bodies are promoting the benefits to insurers, and China, of backing AI firms

  • Chinese insurance AMs discuss benefits of AI investing at Shenzhen seminar

    26 March 2025

    Attendees hear that 2025 could be "the first real year of the AI industry"

  • Chart of the Week - US P&C insurers financial indicators

    21 February 2025

    And why things may not be so bad for them after all...

  • Chart of the Week - Why the news is not all bad for Californian insurer State Farm GI

    14 February 2025

    Amid hefty natcat bills in past years, and worse probably yet to come from LA, State Farm's CIO has helped steady the ship