Archive

  • S&P Ratings says foreign units will replace profits from keiretsu sales in Japan

    13 March 2026

    Major non-lifers are still selling down cross shareholdings

  • APAC Weekly - How US M&A 'works' for Japan's mega-insurers

    03 March 2026

    Sompo, Meiji Yasuda Life and MS&AD recently completed acquisitions in the US. Their targets' numbers are no doubt making them smile....

  • Capital benefits driving South Korean lifers towards rated APAC private funds, says S&P Global

    26 February 2026

    Fund and acquisition finance highlighted as areas of investment potential in APAC

  • Mercuries Life announces second interim CIO

    02 February 2026

    President was filling CIO role temporarily

  • Solvency II changes a "meaningful step" for securitised assets' allure, S&P says

    11 December 2025

    Though ratings agency warns changes are unlikely to have a "significant impact" on insurers' appetites

  • S&P to monitor US insurers' expanding private credit allocations

    17 October 2025

    Ratings agency says insurers' rates management efforts should insulate from interest rate fluctuations

  • APAC Weekly - Japan's lifers welcome fork in the road for their guarantees and returns

    22 July 2025

    The 82bps difference between big lifers' guarantee and ROI is wider than any year-end since 2012

  • Taiwanese life firms win solvency leeway to use TW-ICS transitionals

    24 June 2025

    Taiwan's regulator says it will consider applicants' Q3 solvency levels

  • Mayday! FX volatility hits Taiwan's lifers but no crash landings are forecast

    04 June 2025

    When the Taiwan/US FX rate leaped 8% in two days last month, the same might well have happened to the heartrate of CIOs at life insurers, as David Walker examines

  • Taiwan's lifers bolster capital and FX reserves after market volatility

    03 June 2025

    Country's dollar jumped 8% against greenback in two days last month