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AM Best upgrades A.I.M. Mutual's Long-Term Issuer Credit Ratings to "positive"
18 July 2024Due to strong underwriting results and investment income
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BMA said to tighten screws over re/insurers' related-party investments
25 June 2024Pre-approval now needed, as PE ownership structure under microscope again
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AM Best heralds end to US P&C firms needing to take risk for investment yield
30 May 2024Non-life sector in US posted record net investment income in 2023, rating agency finds
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Spanish life firm investments jump over 10% in 2023, regulator reveals
17 May 2024Industry sat on €283bn investment pot at end of 2023
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Japan's CIOs have alternatives managers in their sights
17 April 2024The Bank of Japan may have stolen the limelight last month, but insurance CIOs made headlines as well, with eye-catching allocations to non-mainstream assets and emerging managers
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US life/health insurers increasingly outsourced asset management from 2016-2022, AM Best says
28 February 2024Proportion of insurers using unaffiliated asset managers to control more than 50% of invested assets grew to 33.4% in 2022
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777 Re demoted again as illiquid asset problem lingers
19 February 2024AM Best wants decrease to affiliated investments to boost 777 Re's capitalisation
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P&I Club investment returns to resurrect, driving positive results, AM Best says
12 February 2024Japan P&I Club aiming to turn 1.19% returns into 2.4%
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PE backers to stoke US annuity market even as lapse payouts top premiums
23 January 2024AM Best sees new PE- and AM-backed underwriters as fuelling competition
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Somers Re capitalisation stays strong despite unrealised losses, AM Best says
02 January 2024Unrealised investment losses in 2022 not enough to knock the firm's ratings down