Archive

  • Varma partners with Finnish Startup Community

    20 April 2026

    To bring Varma's experience as an investor and pension insurer closer to Finnish growth companies

  • Lifers' trade body desired different risk-allowance floor in annuity capital framework revision

    03 April 2026

    Financial Services Council argued for 35% floor, but industry got 45% floor, instead

  • South Korea's insurers commit KRW 40trn to productive finance

    09 March 2026

    Of which KRW 8trn will go into a National Growth Fund

  • Shin Kong Life adopts new FX valuation freedoms in Taiwan

    02 February 2026

    FSC extended new valuation option after lifers' FX woes last May

  • Fitch predicts cull of investment risk in South Korea ahead of core ratio proposed from 2027

    29 January 2026

    FSC revealed plans for new ratio this month

  • Fitch issues warnings about proposed FX reporting rules for Taiwan lifers

    16 January 2026

    Agency predicts FX mismatches will "remain substantial"

  • APAC Weekly - Taiwan lifers' FX hedging costs exceeded sector's net profits since 2019

    13 January 2026

    Sector wins reprieve on how unrealised FX gains/losses are reported from 2026

  • APAC Weekly - Taiwan's lifers given 'breathing room' in ratings watches by Fitch

    16 December 2025

    Retraction of negative ratings watches might not, per se, have been the main cause for sector's relief

  • PIC completes buy-ins with Baker Hughes worth £900m

    26 June 2025

    Securing pensions of over 3,000 pensioners and nearly 4,000 deferred members

  • Taiwan's FSC proposes increasing foreign currency policy limit

    10 March 2021

    Move would be credit positive for life insurers, Moody's says