Risk

  • Hong Kong considering future capital-factor incentives for infrastructure investments

    26 April 2024

    Green bond discount, and rejection of time-lag for asset valuations, published by Insurance Authority today

  • Japanese lifers tell trade body they want more in return for holding equities

    25 April 2024

    Returns, dividend payout ratios and returns on equity common causes of discontent

  • The other 'hiking' - Lloyd's syndicate CIOs trek further 'off the beaten path' for alternatives

    25 April 2024

    Yields on core fixed income may have improved with rate hikes of recent years, but some Lloyd's syndicate CIOs have ventured further from the well-trod path, searching for alternatives, as David Walker discovers

  • Impairment issues in CRE not a rating worry for Korean insurers, Fitch says

    23 April 2024

    Revealing CRE overseas exposure of Korean insurers

  • Opacity and growing interconnectedness in PE space, key worry for Bank of England

    22 April 2024

    Nathanaël Benjamin executive director of financial stability strategy and risk at BoE explained

  • Comment - Lapse risk, SFCRs and getting more transparency into Italian insurers

    22 April 2024

    Nine data cells reveal the stress that sent one prominent lifer to the wall

  • Rescuers of Eurovita divulge details of IVASS' bail-out plan in SFCRs

    22 April 2024

    Lifer faced redemption and solvency pressure before rivals took on assets, and policies

  • Chart of the Week - Uniform SCR-breakdown for IM users becomes possible, for non-UK Insurers, at least...

    19 April 2024

    A new EIOPA reporting template has made it possible to see uniform breakdown of IM and PIM users' Solvency II risk modules

  • NZAOA releases fourth target setting protocol

    18 April 2024

    With inclusion of sovereign debt in asset classes assessed

  • Fitch Ratings predicts UK bulk annuity transaction volumes will pass £60bn in 2024

    18 April 2024

    After reaching highest ever levels of almost £50bn in 2023

  • Comment: EIOPA fires its own starting gun on actually implementing Solvency II reform

    18 April 2024

    Small yet pivotal parts of SFCRs for non-UK firms have been amended, with significantly better transparency one result

  • Comparable SCR data appears for internal model users in Europe, from revised reporting requirements

    18 April 2024

    New and amended Solvency II data templates are now being published by non-UK internal model users

  • RLAM warns BoE rates cut not guaranteed, after April CPI figures higher than expected

    17 April 2024

    Manager still assuming first cut will come in the second half of 2024

  • Insurers' investments face risks in case of Israel-Iran conflict escalation, S&P says

    17 April 2024

    Agency believes foreign insurers' direct exposure to Israel via insurance and reinsurance to be "relatively immaterial"

  • Italy's lifers tap general accounts, and parental purses, as lapse risk endures in 2023

    17 April 2024

    SFCRs describe levels, and ways to combat, lapse risk