Risk

  • Comment - Want to buy a house for $0.65? Then come to flood-prone Australia

    12 November 2025

    Politicians remain divided over attracting mitigating/adaptation investment Downunder, despite evidence of calamity

  • Fubon Life outsources NT$750m to Taiwanese growth-investor's PE fund

    10 November 2025

    AppWorks commitment is latest in insurer's string of alts fund purchases

  • Nippon Life to use AI-enabled credit in its lending operations

    10 November 2025

    Lifer says the lending methods AI can facilitate benefit SMEs

  • Alt IM expansion in Lloyd's syndicates and US casualty sidecars raise risks, Fitch says

    07 November 2025

    Longer‑duration premium flows are being invested in higher‑yield private assets managed by alt IMs

  • Chart of the Week: PE-owned lifers, private assets, and the BIS

    07 November 2025

    The Bank for International Settlements has taken aim at numerous topics swirling around life insurers, all linked by 'illiquidity'

  • Comment - A mea culpa, and belated apology, to Challenger

    07 November 2025

    Australians buying more annuities in future? 'Don't bet on it,' a cynic might say

  • BoE rate hold unsurprising, sets stage for December cut

    06 November 2025

    Investors now turn attention to December MPC meeting

  • Fitch warns EC's Solvency II reform plans could push shift to "higher-risk or less liquid credit investments"

    06 November 2025

    Firms with 'expanded allocations to private credit, real assets and structured instruments' put on notice

  • PRA says UK annuity writers can benefit from MAIA by year's end

    06 November 2025

    Regulator has received "flurry of interest" in mechanism from annuity writers already

  • Australia's governance regulator maps out plans for private credit regulation

    05 November 2025

    ASIC warns "we must learn from previous crises and act to avoid future disruption"

  • Nissay AM launches US 'Mega 10' growth product

    05 November 2025

    Benchmark is equally weighted to avoid concentration risk

  • Alternative stress-testing should "start at" 18% or 20% devaluations, says HedgeBay

    04 November 2025

    In market crises, CFO says, holders could not even "give away" some illiquids

  • Fubon Life retracts from CVC Capital Partners LP and 10 private and infra funds

    03 November 2025

    Fubon Life also names Pantheon LPs in its recent transactions

  • Tokio Marine invests in international recruiter as workforce shortage bites

    03 November 2025

    Japan's birthrate hit record low last year, ringing alarm bells

  • Entries open for Insurance Asset Risk Awards 2026 - UK and Europe

    03 November 2025

    Awards aim to recognise those working across the insurance investment value chain