Risk

  • Change for the dollar? RLAM says check your currency hedges

    16 January 2026

    US policy uncertainty, potential increases in deficit spending, and challenges to Fed independence raise doubts over greenback's safe haven status

  • Fitch issues warnings about proposed FX reporting rules for Taiwan lifers

    16 January 2026

    Agency predicts FX mismatches will "remain substantial"

  • Chart of the Week: China's regulator sets out plans on improving industry ALM

    16 January 2026

    NFRA also flags ALM requirements for outsourcing partners

  • Europe's fragmented nature creates "enduring edge" over US for private credit investors, says CVC CP

    16 January 2026

    Europe now "a compelling landscape for private credit investments" for CIOs

  • Lifers' liquidity exposure, credit assessment frameworks, and FundedRe on PRA's radar for 2026

    15 January 2026

    Lifers' liquidity exposure, credit assessment frameworks, and FundedRe on PRA's radar for 2026

  • Comment - Has the concept, or form, of 'political risk' had its day for CIOs?

    15 January 2026

    Like so much else of investment theory, political risk is being turned on its head

  • China Life AM expects "slow bull market" in A-shares this year

    14 January 2026

    Affiliate does not rule out further tariff wars with US

  • Comment - China's regulator warns its global peers, don't miss the wood for the trees

    13 January 2026

    The National Financial Regulatory Administration is not exactly known for being particularly internationally vocal.

  • Rising equities boosted equity risk in K-ICS for South Koreans in Q3

    13 January 2026

    Regulator warns about interest rate risk and ALM

  • NFRA flags possible hike in insurers' capital requirements for private credit

    13 January 2026

    China's regulator says country's insurers have "more connection to other NBFIs"

  • APAC Weekly - Taiwan lifers' FX hedging costs exceeded sector's net profits since 2019

    13 January 2026

    Sector wins reprieve on how unrealised FX gains/losses are reported from 2026

  • Short-dated credit still attractive in tight spread environment, Aberdeen says

    12 January 2026

    Manager's Short Dated Enhanced Income Fund has shifted focus from high yield towards cash and short dated government bonds

  • P&C insurers' balance sheets and investment returns strong in 2026, Moody's says

    09 January 2026

    Most regions to continue to benefit from reinvestment yields that exceed levels during the low-rate era

  • Chart of the Week - Australia's non-lifers face growing natcat losses (and liquidity needs)

    02 January 2026

    'Keep cash on hand and reinsure, reinsure, reinsure' might be the mantra for insurers of cat-exposed property

  • Fitch to watch growing private credit scale and complexity in 2026

    31 December 2025

    Though not a systemic risk, ratings agency notes private credit's expanding connections to wider capital markets and traditional lenders