Archive

  • 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

  • Muted offshore investments and high hedging ratios shield Japan from FX risk, says S&P Global

    29 May 2025

    Private credit/debt investments are roughly half US/European levels, agency adds

  • Taiwan discusses life insurer solvency and TW-ICS rules after FX market shock

    29 May 2025

    New regulations are due to take effect next January

  • Insurers join EM climate change investment taskforce

    16 May 2025

    Initiative designed to unlock private investment to tackle climate change risk in emerging markets

  • Fitch puts five Taiwanese lifers on negative ratings watches amid FX volatility

    16 May 2025

    S&P Global also expects a hit to Taiwan's lifers' earnings but not their capital

  • S&P Global estimates 48% net FX mismatch at Taiwan lifers

    15 May 2025

    Foreign-FX policies reduces larger gross FX mismatch, as volatility hits USD cross rate