USA Focus

  • IAR Real Assets: Don't paint office space sector with broad brush strokes

    14 March 2024

    Problems are granular, insurers warn

  • IAR Real Assets: Perfect landing expected in the US, but we're still circling the runway, Swiss Re says

    14 March 2024

    ERGO group finding investing in ESG infrastructure more difficult than expected

  • Dai-ichi Life makes two impact investments in medical sector

    08 March 2024

    Worth a combined $6m

  • Chart of the Week - How Europe's CIOs keep falling in love with the U-S-A

    08 March 2024

    The volume of US debt in Europe's general account has grown and grown

  • Prudential Financial and RGA to complete $5.9bn PRT deal with Verizon

    07 March 2024

    Deal is the second multi-billion pension risk transfer agreement Prudential has completed this year

  • Secret US CIO on a glass half empty

    07 March 2024

    Outlook for rates and... a US presidential election

  • US life/health insurers increasingly outsourced asset management from 2016-2022, AM Best says

    28 February 2024

    Proportion of insurers using unaffiliated asset managers to control more than 50% of invested assets grew to 33.4% in 2022

  • US PRT market worth $45bn in 2023, L&G says

    22 February 2024

    Average funding ratio for US corporate defined benefit pension plans increased to 104.1% in December 2023

  • MEAG acquires swathe of forestry assets in Texas and Louisiana

    08 February 2024

    Total area bought contains over 31 million trees

  • Prudential Financial closes $4.9bn pension risk deal with Shell USA

    07 February 2024

    Deal relates to pension obligations belonging to 21,500 retirees

  • US West Coast insurers face up to $40bn in corporate bonds climate- related losses

    07 February 2024

    Research commissioned by California's regulator has found

  • Prudential Financial announces new CFO

    07 February 2024

    Yanela Frias takes over from Ken Tanji in March with a transition period running to September

  • Conning acquisition opens key US asset management market to Generali, CEO of AM says

    30 January 2024

    Group CEO Donnet describes Conning acquisition as the platform to become a top tier global AM

  • WR Berkley reports eye-watering improvement in interest income

    25 January 2024

    Almost 75% of total portfolio is of fixed maturity

  • Geopolitical risks cast a long-term shadow, pension insurers say

    23 January 2024

    Swathe of elections and rise of far-right opinion in western countries also a risk