Archive

  • APAC Weekly - Region's re/insurers set up pools to cover marine war risks and petrol purchases

    14 April 2026

    Underwriters and governments have acted quickly to make war risks and petrol buying insurable

  • China Life AM maps out Chinese insurers' appetite for alternatives

    21 July 2025

    All six large listed groups reduced exposures last year

  • China's insurers have responded to shareholder 'call to arms', says China Life AM

    16 July 2025

    Groups made fresh allocations in 2024 to State-owned banks, pharma and utilities

  • Comment - Chinese insurers find good luck, or good planning, in regulator's move on gold

    13 February 2025

    NFRA has begun letting 10 large underwriters make some bullion-related investments

  • Chinese regulator launches gold investment pilot programme for 10 insurers

    12 February 2025

    NFRA named insurers involved and launched programme on Friday

  • APAC Weekly - Equity returns take off in Chinese giants' 1H results

    10 September 2024

    But another peripheral class - CRE debt finance - takes the sheen off otherwise glowing investment outcomes

  • Ageas makes RMB 1.1bn investment in China Taiping pensions unit

    21 May 2024

    Belgian has worked with Chinese group since 2001

  • Chart of the Week - Hong Kong's RBC rules and their capital charges for CIOs

    26 April 2024

    The risk-factor charges Hong Kong's CIOs will apply under RBC appeared in a long document today, for various asset classes and risk types

  • Investment horizon broadens in Asia as rates rise

    25 August 2022

    As rates finally rise again, new investment opportunities are gradually re-opening for the region's CIOs, as David Walker finds out

  • Closing comment - C-Ross Phase II takes flight

    10 May 2022

    China's insurers and regulators gear up for take-off under the country's revised regulations