Archive

  • MS&AD confirms outsourcing as Barings deal proceeds

    20 November 2025

    Japanese group is buying 18% of asset manager

  • US lifers' appetite accelerating for privately-rated and unrated FI, Moody's Ratings finds

    14 November 2025

    Athene US has second lowest proportional exposure among large peers

  • Lifers face increased asset risk amidst BPA boom, Moody's says

    15 October 2025

    Outlook for insurers broadly stable, with high rates supporting investment income

  • Chart of the Week - Bermuda as a magnet for life policy reserves, backed by private credit

    20 June 2025

    Moody's Ratings report charts an industry "transformed" by reinsurance, and alternative asset manager tie-ups

  • Moody's Ratings reveals volume of ERMs in large UK MA portfolios

    10 June 2025

    Total volume held was about 7% of total UK annuity investments in 2024, agency finds

  • Taiwan's Shin Kong Life gets parental capital injection for rough capital markets

    22 May 2025

    Moody's recently warned of unhedged foreign investment exposure at SKL

  • European insurers may see "breakout moment" in private credit, Moody's says

    08 May 2025

    Appetite and capacity is there, ratings agency says, but regulations holding investment back

  • APAC Weekly - Japan's insurers may not 'roar' in overseas M&A deals, but increasingly they want the lion's share

    24 March 2025

    It would be misplaced to say the Japanese want back-row seats in global expansion

  • Private credit, insurance now make up over half Blackstone, Apollo, KKR and Carlyle portfolio, says Moody's

    22 January 2025

    A decade ago, these classes were just one-third of those alternative managers' businesses

  • APAC insurers taking materially higher asset risk then US peers, Moody's Ratings finds

    15 October 2024

    Ratings agency used its M'CT analytical tool to compare underwriters across regions