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  • The RBC changes: a slow-moving Titanic

    20 July 2021

    It is a slow change, even by the notoriously slow standards of the insurance industry. However, the soon-to-be instigated changes to the NAIC's risk-based capital charges on fixed income assets could have significant ramifications for the US insurance investment portfolio. And many don't like it. Sarfraz Thind reports

  • Asset risk still "high pressure point" for Italian insurers, Moody's warns

    18 March 2021

    Due to their concentration to domestic govvies

  • Axa bids a gradual 'adieu' to the burdens of traditional life

    10 March 2021

    Unit-linked products are being pushed, with force, by Axa, AG2R, CNP Assurances

  • Credit migration could slash 30 points from European life firm solvency

    11 January 2021

    Moody's calls downgrades "key source of risk" in coming months

  • The role of ETFs in insurers' portfolios

    22 December 2020

    Insurance Asset Risk survey finds increased interest in asset class

  • Chinese insurers face investment income volatility with increased allocation to equity

    07 December 2020

    But credit risk mitigated from reduced allocation to alternatives, Moody's says

  • Fitch downgrades Volkswohl Bund Leben on reinvestment yield

    03 November 2020

    Moody's hangs negative outlook on German life sector

  • Insurers to increase allocation to ETFs, Insurance Asset Risk survey finds

    11 September 2020

    As global ETFs and ETPs reach $7trn

  • Rating agency oligopoly harms investors, says GDV

    25 August 2020

    German insurers launch broadside against agencies for excessive price hikes and forced licence agreements

  • China's regulator spells out loosening of equities investment limits

    23 July 2020

    Ceilings will be tied to solvency ratios, CBIRC explains

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