Archive

  • APAC Weekly: Is Australia edging towards a matching adjustment?

    17 June 2025

    Reforms to the illiquidity premium that APRA proposes for annuity writers echoes elements of MAs, near and far

  • The thorny regulatory issue of PE and Bermudian re/insurers

    23 September 2024

    The BMA has its sights set on parent-originated illiquid investments in the GAs of Bermuda's underwriters

  • BMA reveals private credit investment weightings among Bermuda's asset-intensive re/insurers

    06 September 2024

    Alts allocations not uniformly higher than across all Bermuda's commercial long-term re/insurers

  • Bermuda regulator assesses the risks and rewards of insurers' private credit holdings

    06 September 2024

    Watchdog found over 80% of private placement and 90% of CLO holdings are IG among funded re/insurers

  • Everest bolsters institutional investment links with Mt Logan CM platform launch

    22 July 2024

    Bermudian group already has $1.5bn of third-party capital

  • S&P welcomes increased scrutiny of funded reinsurance from PRA and BMA

    06 June 2024

    Warning recapture of ceded exposures could push some BPA writers into negative solvency ratios

  • BMA regulatory reforms get thumbs up from Fitch

    01 May 2024

    Agency says changes support insurer credit profiles, while cautioning against regulatory arbitrage

  • 777 Re demoted again as illiquid asset problem lingers

    19 February 2024

    AM Best wants decrease to affiliated investments to boost 777 Re's capitalisation

  • Investments in private alternatives and related structures "not necessarily bad", BMA says

    26 October 2023

    Bermuda's regulator was speaking at Insurance Risk and Capital Bermuda 2023 conference

  • Comment - As Blackstone helps Clive Cowdery invest, watch Resolution Life's market risk

    25 January 2023

    Blackstone's existing portfolio for Bermudian Harrington Re suggests a very active approach to origination and reallocation of GA