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• The RBC changes: a slow-moving Titanic

  20 July 2021

  It is a slow change, even by the notoriously slow standards of the insurance industry. However, the soon-to-be instigated changes to the NAIC's risk-based capital charges on fixed income assets could have significant ramifications for the US insurance investment portfolio. And many don't like it. Sarfraz Thind reports

• US bond charge proposals could cost life sector $6bn

  20 November 2017

  Smaller underwriters to be hit hardest, says A.M. Best

• New rules to prompt US asset reshuffle

  22 December 2016

  US insurance is on a collision course with one of its biggest risk capital changes in years. It is a significant change for the long-term asset allocation strategy of US insurers and could herald a reshuffle in the fixed income portfolio. Sarfraz Thind reports.