Archive

  • Chart of the Week - UK life insurers' market risk at sub-module level

    11 April 2025

    As equity and bond markets twist and turn, SFCRs reveal which gyrations matter most for UK CIOs

  • Comment - A good time for insurers to divest Japanese cross-shareholdings?

    09 April 2025

    In turbulent times, major Japanese insurers are trying to work out what price is fair, to unwind significant 'keiretsu'

  • Comment: China's regulator picks one helluva day, to promote Chinese insurers' shareholdings

    08 April 2025

    The 'average' insurer will be able to have up to 30% in shares under new rules

  • Lloyd's syndicate makes 36% on hedge fund, and 27% from gold, in 2024

    04 April 2025

    MAP also added, profitably, to gold and commodity ETFs

  • Aberdeen predicts yen and gold to benefit as Asia "bears the brunt" of Trump's trade war

    03 April 2025

    Tokio Marine AM watching US asset prices for after-effects of tariffs

  • Lloyd's syndicates keep careful watch on Donald Trump's tariff wars

    02 April 2025

    Syndicates voiced caution about change of US presidency in latest annual reports

  • IAR Real Assets: Markets failing to price growth risk for 2025, insurers say

    31 March 2025

    Speakers at Insurance Asset Risk's Real Assets conference in London highlight volatility and uncertainty prompted by Trump administration

  • TMAM cites US tariffs as potential roadblock to BoJ rate hike by July

    24 March 2025

    Economic variables otherwise augur well for outlook in Japan, TMAM says

  • Chart of the Week - China Life AM calls for more 'patient capital' in private asset- and equities markets

    21 March 2025

    Affiliate praises various facets of foreign investment markets, and key players in them, from Warren Buffett to KKR

  • Will infrastructure become Europe's 'capital-lite' investment for insurers?

    12 March 2025

    Europe's insurers are ever so politely taking issue with Donald Trump's vow to 'drill, baby, drill'