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  • South Korean insurers given green light to discuss remuneration with investees

    12 March 2026

    Country's Stewardship Code is being revised for first time in 1H 2026

  • Lotte Insurance told to consider asset sales in South Korea

    09 March 2026

    PE-owned firm has been given tougher business improvement plan by regulator

  • 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

  • Mayday! FX volatility hits Taiwan's lifers but no crash landings are forecast

    04 June 2025

    When the Taiwan/US FX rate leaped 8% in two days last month, the same might well have happened to the heartrate of CIOs at life insurers, as David Walker examines

  • Taiwan lifers took NT$47bn FX hit but made NT$150bn gains from foreign investments by February

    19 May 2025

    Gains came before extreme FX market volatility this month

  • APAC Weekly - Is outsourcing being instrumentalised for national strategies?

    03 December 2024

    It seems infrastructure is not the only kind of investment activity an APAC insurer's CIO can now do, to 'help the nation'

  • South Korean insurers to help lend KRW1trn to struggling project finance sector

    14 May 2024

    Financial Services Commission announced various measures for non-viable projects

  • South Korean insurers called upon to end 'Korea discount'

    15 March 2024

    Update to stewardship code also discussed

  • South Korean insurers given capital relief in bumpy investment markets

    13 June 2022

    Paper bond losses as interest rates rise trigger solvency re-think by regulator

  • In conversation: Guernsey's regulator on green capital charges

    09 November 2020

    The director of banking and insurance, Jeremy Quick, and the assistant director, Matthew Tanner, at Guernsey Financial Services Commission talk to Vincent Huck about their recent proposal to introduce a 'green discount' for fixed income investments in the jurisdiction's solvency rules.