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Hong Kong considering future capital-factor incentives for infrastructure investments
26 April 2024Green bond discount, and rejection of time-lag for asset valuations, published by Insurance Authority today
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Japanese lifers tell trade body they want more in return for holding equities
25 April 2024Returns, dividend payout ratios and returns on equity common causes of discontent
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The other 'hiking' - Lloyd's syndicate CIOs trek further 'off the beaten path' for alternatives
25 April 2024Yields 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
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Impairment issues in CRE not a rating worry for Korean insurers, Fitch says
23 April 2024Revealing CRE overseas exposure of Korean insurers
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Opacity and growing interconnectedness in PE space, key worry for Bank of England
22 April 2024Nathanaël Benjamin executive director of financial stability strategy and risk at BoE explained
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Comment - Lapse risk, SFCRs and getting more transparency into Italian insurers
22 April 2024Nine data cells reveal the stress that sent one prominent lifer to the wall
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Rescuers of Eurovita divulge details of IVASS' bail-out plan in SFCRs
22 April 2024Lifer faced redemption and solvency pressure before rivals took on assets, and policies
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Chart of the Week - Uniform SCR-breakdown for IM users becomes possible, for non-UK Insurers, at least...
19 April 2024A new EIOPA reporting template has made it possible to see uniform breakdown of IM and PIM users' Solvency II risk modules
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NZAOA releases fourth target setting protocol
18 April 2024With inclusion of sovereign debt in asset classes assessed
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Fitch Ratings predicts UK bulk annuity transaction volumes will pass £60bn in 2024
18 April 2024After reaching highest ever levels of almost £50bn in 2023
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Comment: EIOPA fires its own starting gun on actually implementing Solvency II reform
18 April 2024Small yet pivotal parts of SFCRs for non-UK firms have been amended, with significantly better transparency one result
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Comparable SCR data appears for internal model users in Europe, from revised reporting requirements
18 April 2024New and amended Solvency II data templates are now being published by non-UK internal model users
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RLAM warns BoE rates cut not guaranteed, after April CPI figures higher than expected
17 April 2024Manager still assuming first cut will come in the second half of 2024
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Insurers' investments face risks in case of Israel-Iran conflict escalation, S&P says
17 April 2024Agency believes foreign insurers' direct exposure to Israel via insurance and reinsurance to be "relatively immaterial"
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Italy's lifers tap general accounts, and parental purses, as lapse risk endures in 2023
17 April 2024SFCRs describe levels, and ways to combat, lapse risk
- CIO Interview: managing Europe's third largest general account
- Conning CEO on Generali's acquisition and AI in asset management
- Private credit beats PE for insurers' appetite for the first time in GSAM survey
- On the merry-go-round of asset classes, with Generali Group's CIO Francesco Martorana
- News roundup: Insurance asset management
- Private debt at the forefront of insurers' continued advance into private markets
- Non-PE backed insurers feel pressure to compete with PE-backed firms
- Insurers not holding managers to account on responsible investing, ShareAction finds
- Comment - What CIOs could learn from Japanese insurers - and Dolly Parton
- Outsourcing switch to BlackRock buoys capital surplus at LV