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Chart of the Week: Why Rome should relax its 5% cap on loans and mortgage exposures for insurers
15 March 2024Researcher Agostino Tripodi finds some sub-optimal GA allocation going on, in shadow of local-law limits on L&M holdings
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South Korean insurers called upon to end 'Korea discount'
15 March 2024Update to stewardship code also discussed
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IAR Real Assets: Insurers positive on SII UK reforms' ability to unlock investment opportunities
14 March 202462% of conference attendees strongly agree or agree changes will open up investments
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98% of insurer investment professionals concerned about greenwashing, Ortec Finance survey finds
12 March 202411% feel their own company's ESG strategies and programmes are "very ineffective"
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Comment - Is it right when insurers publish details of top staff getting pay-cuts?
05 March 2024From Allianz's Oliver Bäte to Sompo's Mikio Okumura, top managers at insurers realise the importance of broadcasting pay-cuts, when necessary
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Tokio Marine vows to "eliminate" cross-shareholdings
29 February 2024Rival Sompo also to sell off its problematic strategic equity stakes
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Winners of the 2024 Insurance Asset Risk awards
29 February 2024Insurance Asset Risk is pleased to announce the winners of its 2024 awards
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US BPA market volume could reach $100bn in the next five years, Legal & General Retirement America says
28 February 2024Regulatory change unlikely to impact the market but possibility of specific amendments not ruled out
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Comment: Share prices suggest insurers' shareholders might not care much about the 'G' in ESG
26 February 2024Shareholders of Japan's insurers pocketed 150% since Q1 2020 while the Topix made 98% - so do the sector's governance issues matter?
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Investment Delivery Forum report calls for "regulatory sandbox" and asset "pre-identification" to boost productive UK investment
23 February 2024ABI initiative to implement benefits of Solvency UK reforms outlines recommendations including scaling up of public-private partnerships and new investment models
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777 Re demoted again as illiquid asset problem lingers
19 February 2024AM Best wants decrease to affiliated investments to boost 777 Re's capitalisation
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Hong Kong regulator warns of risks of life policy-backed lending
19 February 2024'Premium financing' was popular, and easier, when interest rates were low, IA notes
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Fitch says PE ownership not necessarily credit-negative for insurers
15 February 2024Ratings agency looks at insurers' investment strategy riskiness among other facets for credit assessments
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Insurers set to ratchet up risk and back private equities in 2024
14 February 2024Insurers are heaping a hearty portion of risk onto their 2024 investment plates, according to a survey from Ortec Finance, as 51% of insurer investment professionals surveyed believe the risk profile of the funds they help to manage has increased over the past 12 months, and 59% expect a further increase in the next 12 months - within which 14% predicting a "dramatic rise".
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Solvency UK reform should boost insurer lending to real-economy, Mike Eakins says
13 February 2024Changes to matching adjustment should achieve aim of increasing regional investment
- The 2020 review of Solvency II in 24 pills
- Winners of the 2024 Insurance Asset Risk awards
- CIO Interview: New interest rate regime requires creativeness, PIC's Rob Groves says
- US life/health insurers increasingly outsourced asset management from 2016-2022, AM Best says
- Life sciences real estate flourishing but in need of careful tending
- Alternative insights, for insurance CIOs
- Comment: Share prices suggest insurers' shareholders might not care much about the 'G' in ESG
- Will AI "obey" insurance investors, or "shall [regulator] be forced to disconnect"
- Investment Delivery Forum report calls for "regulatory sandbox" and asset "pre-identification" to boost productive UK investment
- US PRT market worth $45bn in 2023, L&G says