Archive

  • China Life AM maps out Chinese insurers' appetite for alternatives

    21 July 2025

    All six large listed groups reduced exposures last year

  • Chart of the Week - Chinese insurers and their equity investments

    18 July 2025

    China Life AM research reveals investment allocation details, growth/contraction and profile of listed insurers' portfolios

  • China's insurers have responded to shareholder 'call to arms', says China Life AM

    16 July 2025

    Groups made fresh allocations in 2024 to State-owned banks, pharma and utilities

  • Comment - Chinese insurers find good luck, or good planning, in regulator's move on gold

    13 February 2025

    NFRA has begun letting 10 large underwriters make some bullion-related investments

  • Chinese regulator launches gold investment pilot programme for 10 insurers

    12 February 2025

    NFRA named insurers involved and launched programme on Friday

  • APAC Weekly - Equity returns take off in Chinese giants' 1H results

    10 September 2024

    But another peripheral class - CRE debt finance - takes the sheen off otherwise glowing investment outcomes

  • Chinese life investment yields in 2023 revealed

    30 April 2024

    Fitch welcomes cooling in major firms' investment return assumptions

  • Comment: The strong case for ESG investing 'with national characteristics'

    29 February 2024

    From green bonds to "animal attack" insurance, underwriters have an endless list of locally-appropriate ESG actions to take

  • Chinese insurers launch $7bn private fund to invest in stock market

    01 December 2023

    New fund follows regulatory tweaks made by the Chinese government

  • Investment horizon broadens in Asia as rates rise

    25 August 2022

    As rates finally rise again, new investment opportunities are gradually re-opening for the region's CIOs, as David Walker finds out