Archive

  • Chart of the Week: Solvency II's securitisations reforms - it's nice to have options?

    10 April 2026

    Moody's analysis of capital charges finds relatively small impact, despite a big drop in some investment classes

  • Chart of the Week: Sovereigns and equities biggest risk for European insurers' solvency ratios

    03 April 2026

    Moody's report finds equity market price correction of -25% could cleave 9 percentage-points off insurers' ratios

  • The Middle East conflict is a 'general account event' for insurers

    23 March 2026

    Risks are on the downside and more on the 'asset side' of re/insurers' businesses, experts say

  • European Commission's rumoured SII capital relief - credit negative, Moody's warns

    20 August 2025

    The rating agency also questioned whether the proposal would have the desired effect of channelling investments to specific parts of the economy

  • T&D Holdings to pay JPY 120bn as part of Viridium buyer consortium

    21 March 2025

    Japanese group will hold 29.9% of the life book consolidator if the deal is allowed

  • Trends in insurance are feeding into consolidation moves in asset management

    26 August 2024

    Moody's senior vice president Benjamin Serra discusses the latest trends in insurance and asset management and how they feed into each other

  • Insurance and asset management - a marriage of convenience?

    19 August 2024

    Insurance Asset Risk analyses recent consolidations and sell-offs of AM units at European insurers

  • Bolting for the door - could 'mass lapse' risk trigger 'mass bond sales' at French lifers?

    04 May 2023

    Better interest rates mean better investment options than life policies. As France's exposed lifers watch on, some count up their liquid assets, some count on customer loyalty - but will all ultimately count on CIOs, to sell off GAs? David Walker reports

  • The death of life insurance

    13 July 2022

    They were the bane of life for many CIOs, but a rich source of outsourcing for asset managers. Are traditional life policies - and their challenges for investing - now dead? David Walker investigates

  • Moody's reveals potential impact of downgrades on Solvency ratios

    14 May 2020

    The rating agency has run stress tests on European insurers' corporate bond portfolios and reveals that, in the most extreme scenario, solvency ratios could decrease by up to 50 percentage points. Vincent Huck reports