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• IMF looks to ruin PE-insurer party

  29 December 2023

  The International Monetary Fund has raised further warning flags on private equity-owned insurance businesses. At the heart of the concerns are the illiquid assets these insurers use which may lead to financial catastrophe, if the IMF is to be believed.

• Asian insurers doubled foreign asset holdings in five years

  17 October 2019

  This could create new risk transmission channels, IMF warned

• IMF calls for compulsory holdings of liquid investments amid rising risk

  17 October 2019

  Fund points to risk of cross-border contagion as life insurers seek better yields in foreign investments

• Hong Kong flexes its regulatory muscles to compete internationally

  23 May 2019

  The pearl of the Orient has been implementing the International Monetary Fund’s recommendations for stronger regulation at a fast pace. In the first part of this two-part series, Vincent Huck looks at the progress made and what remains to be achieved.

• IMF backs global capital standard for insurers

  10 October 2018

  Solvency II is welcome, but broader coverage is needed to minimise economic threats

• IMF urges EU to impose borrower limits on insurers' mortgage lending

  23 July 2018

  International Monetary Fund concerned by inconsistency in macroprudential policies.

• VA lures Dutch life insurers to copy asset mix of European rivals, says IMF

  04 April 2017

  Economic-based valuations "distorted" by VA and UFR

• IMF questions sustainability of Ireland's variable annuities industry

  30 September 2016

  Low rates put product appeal at risk

• Insurers safe from direct impact of Greek default

  01 July 2015

  Holdings of Greek sovereign bonds at minimal levels

• Time is running out for Greece

  27 April 2015

  Endgame in about six weeks, says JP Morgan; Draghi stresses about banks