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• Half of European insurers' investments are rated Baa or worse, Moody's estimates

  26 April 2023

  But AT1 debt under 1% of rated underwriters' financial bond holdings

• China industry practitioners praise CBIRC as dissolution flagged

  10 March 2023

  New set up suggests a more centralized regulatory mechanism

• Jefferies urges AXA to sell German life back-book

  12 July 2022

  Bank praises Thomas Buberl for pivoting business model from asset risks

• Allianz cuts average life promise by one-third since 2011

  11 July 2022

  Moody's raised outlook for group and various undertakings

• Europe's life CIOs to trim risk-taking, predicts S&P Global Ratings

  04 July 2022

  Yields on mainstream classes now enough to satisfy some guarantees

• 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

• 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

• The insurance investor's tale on ESG

  23 March 2022

  Simon Tighe came 600 years late to feature in Geoffrey Chaucer's 14th century classic, The Canterbury Tales - but his story of the eponymous re/insurer's ESG development is as engaging for David Walker

• NAIC requests feedback on RBC treatment of asset backed securities

  15 February 2022

  Further differentiation of risk across credit holdings needed, Bridgeway Analytics' Levy says

• The E - in ESG and in EMD

  09 February 2022

  Analysing the impact of climate risk on emerging market debt's creditworthiness