Caution and patience watchwords for US insurers, Conning says
Recession is "bubbling under," according to head of structured products
Recession is "bubbling under," according to head of structured products
Deterioration in solvency ratios decelerates
Insurance actuaries are having to rethink what 'sex' means, as a differentiator for pricing policies
Treasury does not have to default for US to be downgraded, says chief rating officer
Industry's $600bn commercial mortgage loan holdings most at risk from market crash
International Congress of Actuaries discusses climate scenarios, inter-disciplinary work and portfolio…
Insurers invested in fund which has suffered from office downturn
Actuaries warn of "moving away from the strict actuarial approach" as climate change looms
But careful selection needs to be uppermost for investors
As debt holdings devalued in 2022, so did insurers' Solvency II funds, and ratios
Stating current analysis focused more on transition risk and lacked necessary nuance to understand localised…
Regulation risk is an issue insurers and asset managers have to live with
Europe's CIOs are being challenged as never before to get investment and regulatory trade-offs right…
Whether they love them or hate them, Europe's CIOs hold shares, directly and in funds they came to about…
While European CIOs welcomed debt yields heating up again in 2022, for Italians BTPs underwent a truly…
Some insurers faced triple-digit hikes in interest rates SCRs as equities and spread risks dramatically…
Markets may have dived as rates, geopolitical tension and inflation rocketed, but Scandinavian and Nordic…
As fixed income yields rise, Spanish insurers' CIOs may reflect happily on their 76% weighting to fixed…
Better interest rates mean better investment options than life policies. As France's exposed lifers watch…
Remember, remember the 23rd of September - when gilt yields exploded, without a mote of gunpowder in…
The MA has saved UK lifers truly vast sums of Solvency II capital. In Spain it's delivered some very…
Stephen Quazzo, chief executive of real estate investment boutique Pearlmark, tells Sarfraz Thind…