Archive

  • 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

  • 'Rise of the East and decline of the West' heralds "new era" for China's insurance AM

    04 June 2025

    Ping AN AM, PICC AM and Taiking among managers with upbeat assessments of status quo

  • 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

  • Chinese life investment yields in 2023 revealed

    30 April 2024

    Fitch welcomes cooling in major firms' investment return assumptions

  • Comment - CBIRC wants C-Ross Phase II to improve transparency and risk management - and leads by example

    16 January 2023

    Chinese regulator has spelled out some shortcomings in early reporting under revised rules

  • China's regulator identifies investment reporting shortfalls in C-Ross Phase II

    16 January 2023

    Number of life insurers named by CBIRC

  • Chinese lifers cut back risky investments in Q1, Fitch finds

    20 May 2022

    Core solvency ratios fall in Q1 despite use of new rules' transitional measures

  • Ratings agencies have 'positive outlook' on China's C-Ross Phase II

    18 April 2022

    Fitch and Moody's tell David Walker Phase II new rules may lower average solvency ratios, but they will lift risk- and capital management, including for investments, at insurers