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  • Investment challenges arising from shifting insurance business models

    26 June 2019

    At Insurance Asset Risk EMEA 2019 conference European insurers discuss as part of a panel the shifts in insurance business models and the ramification for investments strategies. In this first part of a two-part series, they discuss the ongoing consolidation in the market. Compiled by David Walker

  • ESG integration delivers returns with lower volatility

    06 June 2019

    Pascal Zbinden, co-head of SAA & market at Swiss Re will speak at Insurance Asset Risk EMEA 2019

  • Q&A: Introducing risk-based capital in Hong Kong

    04 June 2019

    David Alexander, head of P&C reinsurance Hong Kong & Taiwan at Swiss Re, and chairman of the Hong Kong Federation of Insurers taskforce on RBC has been directly involved in liaison with the Insurance Authority on the introduction of the new regulation. Interview by Vincent Huck.

  • Hong Kong’s insurers gearing up for risk-based capital

    31 May 2019

    In Hong Kong, local stakeholders tell Vincent Huck how they are getting ready for a risk-based capital regime which will require them to put in place ALM strategies and define their investment risk appetite.

  • Hong Kong flexes its regulatory muscles to compete internationally

    23 May 2019

    The pearl of the Orient has been implementing the International Monetary Fund’s recommendations for stronger regulation at a fast pace. In the first part of this two-part series, Vincent Huck looks at the progress made and what remains to be achieved.

  • Swiss Re warns US life insurers on credit risk if markets head south

    17 May 2019

    Reinsurer recommends more stress testing of severe credit cycle downturn

  • Scor scales up coal divestment policies

    29 April 2019

    Insurer Scor has strengthened its coal exclusion policies, but it still falls short of alignment with the goals set by the Paris Climate Agreement.

  • China’s Belt & Road: where are the insurers’ investments?

    25 April 2019

    As China celebrates the sixth year of its initiative this week, insurers remain reluctant to invest in its projects. Vincent Huck asks why

  • Swiss Re SST ratio declines 18% despite fall in market risk in 2018

    23 April 2019

    Sale of stake in ReAssure offloads investment risk

  • Regulators set to make an ESG offer insurers really can’t refuse

    29 March 2019

    Speakers in Factset and Insurance Asset Risk webinar expect watchdogs to transform ESG voluntary codes into obligations