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  • NA lifers resilient in face of hypothetical private credit market stress, Moody's says

    28 April 2026

    Agency's stress test finds only "extreme scenario" likely to impact significant proportion of firms' capital scores

  • Chart of the Week: Sovereigns and equities biggest risk for European insurers' solvency ratios

    03 April 2026

    Moody's report finds equity market price correction of -25% could cleave 9 percentage-points off insurers' ratios

  • Highly predictable cashflow assets - still waiting for the goldrush?

    30 March 2026

    The Solvency UK reforms allowing insurers to invest up to 10% of their MA portfolios in 'highly predictable' cashflow assets launched in June 2024, but its positive impact was not immediately clear

  • Chart of the Week - US life firms and their funding agreement-backed notes

    06 March 2026

    Moody's is warning sector about ALM and risk management of assets backing FABNs

  • Residential private credit increases risk profile for US lifers, Moody's says

    10 February 2026

    Interest rate shifts and prepayments present cashflow uncertainty and credit risk

  • M&G notes £722m exposure to UK ground rent phase out

    02 February 2026

    M&G notes £722m exposure to UK ground rent phase out

  • P&C insurers' balance sheets and investment returns strong in 2026, Moody's says

    09 January 2026

    Most regions to continue to benefit from reinvestment yields that exceed levels during the low-rate era

  • Insurance sector the "natural home" of productive assets, L&G says

    01 December 2025

    Managing director of UK PRT John Towner on the 2025 PRT market

  • COTW: Some US lifers have concentration risk in CLO collateral managers

    21 November 2025

    Moody's has cautioned, despite collateral managers overall being mostly diversified

  • APAC Weekly - Australians face up to reality of a catastrophic future as climate warms

    15 September 2025

    Bleak reading in nation's inaugural National Climate Risk Assessment