Archive

• Comment: NAIC shifts from aspiration to execution of revising investment oversight

  21 April 2025

  Amnon Levy describes how the US regulator resolved to put best foot forward at annual spring meeting

• NAIC aims to develop due diligence framework for US insurers' use of ratings agencies

  10 April 2025

  Regulator plans to reduce "blind reliance" on external ratings

• The bond definition is live and "the times they are a-changin'"

  15 January 2025

  Amnon Levy, CEO at Bridgeway Analytics, considers the changes the NAIC's new bond definition could bring to the sector, and how they can be managed

• Comment: A new dawn in investment oversight: An update from the 2024 NAIC summer meeting

  28 August 2024

  Amnon Levy describes recent developments at the NAIC to modernize investment oversight

• Comment: Investment vehicles, an update from the 2024 NAIC Spring National Meeting

  03 April 2024

  Amnon Levy looks at the latest developments in investment classification and accounting treatment

• Comment: The NAIC's evolving reliance on agency ratings

  19 December 2023

  Amnon Levy analyses the developments from the 2023 Fall National Meeting

• Comment: NAIC's CLO Model - A communal path to policy design

  22 February 2023

  By Amnon Levy and Brett Manning

• The NAIC's alternative to agency ratings

  07 September 2022

  Ahead of the end of the public comment period next week on potential changes to the NAIC's reliance on rating agencies, Amnon Levy and Bill Poutsiaka explore the implications of such changes for insurers

• The Evolving CLO Regulatory Landscape

  09 August 2022

  Amnon Levy looks at the changes to the treatment of CLOs that are being considered by the NAIC and insurance regulators and questions their risk profile against equally rated corporate bonds - how do their lifetime risks stack up?

• Comment: The future of ETF use - lessons from the past

  22 April 2022

  Amnon Levy, CEO of Bridgeway Analytics, explores the investment opportunities in ETF for insurers