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Investors to benefit as Asia ILS market comes to life
10 January 2022Investing in insurance-linked securities (ILS) was once about natural catastrophe risk, but in Asia, practitioners expect far greater diversity in life/non-life risks being packaged, with help from insurers and regulators alike, they tell David Walker
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Chart of the week - EM funding shortfalls for required climate investments, 2016-2030
07 January 2022Emerging markets are going to need insurers, and badly, to meet their climate investment requirements
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Hong Kong regulator introduces hybrid product to close HK$6.9trn 'mortality gap'
06 January 2022Protection-linked plans hoped to serve customers and lifers alike
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COMMENT - Was one vital ingredient missing in EIOPA's liquidity stress test?
05 January 2022EIOPA business-liquidity stress test for insurers needed very illiquid markets
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CIOs prove their worth in EIOPA's industry liquidity stress test
05 January 2022Only 'management actions' kept net liquidity positions positive in simulated 're-run' of Q1 2020
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Hong Kong's regulator invites lifers to adopt RBC early
04 January 2022Life firm practitioners say RBC is already guiding investment decisions
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Chart of the year - Global insurers' 'Covid exposures' and other measures
31 December 2021In the wash-up from Covid, we reflect on how things were, one year on
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AIA president says renewables key to helping Mainland economy thrive
30 December 2021Underwriters put HK$270bn in bonds annually, "but not because we are getting a particularly good yield and certainly not a good spread"
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French underwriters axed nearly €1bn of coal exposure in 2020
29 December 2021Divestments happened at fastest rate since at least 2015
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AMP agrees M&A for infrastructure outsourcing partner
29 December 2021Wurttembergische, R&V and Gothaer among debt-investing clients of AMP Capital