Risk

  • South Korean affiliates cash in as investors seek fat profits from weight-loss ETFs

    18 March 2024

    Three affiliated managers' products gather SKR 150bn in under one month

  • Chart of the Week: Why Rome should relax its 5% cap on loans and mortgage exposures for insurers

    15 March 2024

    Researcher Agostino Tripodi finds some sub-optimal GA allocation going on, in shadow of local-law limits on L&M holdings

  • Japanese giants MS&AD and Sumitomo launch nature-positive investment initiatives

    15 March 2024

    Insurers are uniting industry, government and academia in separate projects

  • Mitsui Sumitomo and NEC launch adaptive finance consortium

    15 March 2024

    Multi-member alliance hopes to make private investing in climate resilience easier and clearer

  • South Korean insurers called upon to end 'Korea discount'

    15 March 2024

    Update to stewardship code also discussed

  • IAR Real Assets: Insurers positive on SII UK reforms' ability to unlock investment opportunities

    14 March 2024

    62% of conference attendees strongly agree or agree changes will open up investments

  • AIA highlights "small" exposure to non-debt holdings in China

    14 March 2024

    Provisioning for credit losses is about 0.5% of portfolio

  • Achmea welcomes market tailwinds and unit-linked finality, as result improves by 21%

    14 March 2024

    But result at Achmea Pension & Life Insurance falls amid provisioning for unit-linked settlements

  • Comment - When police only tell insurers half the story (about natcats)

    13 March 2024

    Insurers have a role to play in mitigating natcat losses - and Japan shows just how broadly they define their responsibility

  • APAC CIOs to be 'interventionist' in coming year, predicts S&P Global Ratings

    13 March 2024

    Taiwanese insurers post T$40bn losses on FX hedging

  • Lack of nature-related scenarios a challenge for target setting, insurers say

    12 March 2024

    Though tools exist, their limitations need to be understood, and information needs to become investment-useful, Fidelity, Phoenix and Abeille Assurance tell conference

  • S&P Global voices concerns at some APAC insurers' property exposures

    12 March 2024

    Exposures of some Chinese insurers raise questions, but Japan, Taiwan and South Korea cause less worry

  • Integrated report companies top 1,000 in Japan

    11 March 2024

    MS&AD 's latest InterRisk report discussed three major awards for integrated reporting

  • St James's Place names 45 different managers on outsourcing roster

    11 March 2024

    Market risk SCR halved during 2023, group's SFCR shows

  • Meiji Yasuda AM widens chief portfolio manager's remit

    11 March 2024

    Suga Yasuhiro now also in charge of equity management, responsible investment, fixed income