Archive

  • Chart of the week: Chinese state insurers' investment returns jump after year of equity push

    24 April 2026

    New China Life's return on investment grew 35% in 2025

  • S&P warns SII reforms could spur more private credit investments

    23 April 2026

    Agency to monitor rising exposure to private credit, despite low relative allocation levels currently

  • Hard currency: Taiwan's lifers have lowered FX hedging ratios, but for how long?

    13 April 2026

    Ten months since the US and Taiwan dollars sharply parted ways, handing FX investment risk is still upmost in life CIOs' thoughts

  • Japan Post Insurance strikes funded re deal with Talcott Life Re and Aflac Re Bermuda

    03 April 2026

    Deal is Aflac unit's first such transaction for external client

  • APAC Weekly: Insurers' healthy outlook at a new dawn for regulations in Japan

    31 March 2026

    Investment reshuffles have played their part in strong solvency buffers, as industry moves to economic value-based solvency rules

  • 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