Archive

  • Will the NAIC's new regulations change insurer's attitudes to private credit investments?

    03 February 2025

    David Zhang, director at New York-based advisory firm MSCI, discusses how US insurers are coping with a torrent of new regulation from the NAIC

  • The bond definition is live and "the times they are a-changin'"

    15 January 2025

    Amnon Levy, CEO at Bridgeway Analytics, considers the changes the NAIC's new bond definition could bring to the sector, and how they can be managed

  • NAIC's deactivation order could hit private credit investments, Willkie says

    12 December 2024

    Privately rated securities issued after 1 January 2022 targeted

  • US insurers retreated from CMBS in 2023, NAIC finds

    07 November 2024

    Decline driven by 5.6% year-over-year (YOY) drop in private-label CMBS

  • Chart of the Week - Are PE owners stripping capital out of Bermudian re/insurers they own?

    20 September 2024

    Any insurance regulator's concern is an owner who takes more than it gives, in capital terms

  • IAR North America 2024 round up

    16 September 2024

    Insurance Risk and Capital Americas, an Insurance Asset Risk and InsuranceERM conference, took place on 16 September tackling regulation, private credit and illiquidity considerations amongst other topics

  • IAR North America 24: NAIC aims to reduce "blind reliance" on credit rating providers

    16 September 2024

    Regulation has to keep pace with technology, regulator adds

  • Comment: A new dawn in investment oversight: An update from the 2024 NAIC summer meeting

    28 August 2024

    Amnon Levy describes recent developments at the NAIC to modernize investment oversight

  • A Lasting legacy - How Medvida is still helping Spanish lifers shed unwanted backbooks

    26 June 2024

    Life consolidation and backbook deals may have hit hurdles in Germany, but in Spain Antonio Trueba, CEO of consolidator Medvida Partners paints a different picture

  • NAIC's filing exempt proposal will create "fundamental uncertainty" on investment decisions, says BlackRock

    10 January 2024

    SVO presented tweaks to original proposals at Fall meeting