Regulation

  • Phoenix Group calls for even more risk-friendly MA sandbox

    15 January 2025

    Comments in Parliamentary select committee hearing suggest regulatory culture shift needed to encouraging competitiveness and growth

  • The bond definition is live and "the times they are a-changin'"

    15 January 2025

    Amnon Levy, CEO at Bridgeway Analytics, considers the changes the NAIC's new bond definition could bring to the sector, and how they can be managed

  • APAC Weekly - Why LA's burning matters for APAC insurers

    14 January 2025

    Wildfires reveal connectedness of global insurance industry

  • Local share falls trim equity risk capital bill in South Korea

    14 January 2025

    Domestic equities shed 7% of value in Q3 2024

  • South Korean watchdog details insurers' foreign property exposures

    13 January 2025

    Underwriters had 55% of financial sector's total allocation by mid-2024, FSS says

  • PRA aims to streamline MA investments for insurers in 2025

    10 January 2025

    Confirming comments made in a July 2024 Insurance Asset Risk webinar

  • Embattled Thai insurer gets M&A offer for affiliated manager

    03 January 2025

    M&A would raise much-needed capital that its regulator demands

  • Chart of the Week - What Solvency UK means for the UK General Account

    03 January 2025

    Last year the PRA announced raised thresholds for UK insurers to be subject to 'Solvency UK'

  • "Proof is in the pudding" for UK government's investment incentives

    01 January 2025

    According to Aviva Investor's senior economist and strategist

  • Chinese regulator updates rules to assess riskiness of equity investment managers

    26 December 2024

    Sweeping reforms of asset-risk assessment by insurers will take effect from next July

  • NAIC's deactivation order could hit private credit investments, Willkie says

    12 December 2024

    Privately rated securities issued after 1 January 2022 targeted

  • BoE calls for increased transparency around PE-backed (re)insurers' exposures

    03 December 2024

    Warns of systemic risks at the intersection of the PE and life insurance sectors if vulnerabilities not addressed

  • M&G Investments to adopt 'Sustainability Impact' label for fund

    02 December 2024

    M&G Positive Impact Fund set to adopt SDR label in early 2025

  • European insurers' ratings safe from EIOPA fossil surcharges, Fitch says

    21 November 2024

    Agency predicts proposed increase in capital requirements would affect firms' Solvency II ratios by less than 100bps

  • Complacency is key risk to watch for, Swiss Re's Haegeli warns

    19 November 2024

    Highlighting that recent election results in Europe and US have not dampened the attractiveness of sustainable infrastructure for insurers' investments