Analysis

  • The CBIRC's legacy - a safe pair of hands for Chinese insurance regulation

    14 March 2023

    The CBIRC is reportedly being dissolved and its duties transferred. David Walker finds an industry praising the modernising, improving impetus behind its work on C-ROSS Phase II, to benefit risk management and China's society more generally

  • Europe's life giants trip the lite switch firmly 'on'

    08 March 2023

    Thomas Buberl, and Oliver Bäte are men with a mission, to preach the gospel of low-capital product. But will their customers buy it? David Walker asks

  • A career like a ski line

    08 March 2023

    Insurance Asset Risk's young professional of the year 2023 recipient, Carly Segal, recounts what took her from the ski slopes of Vermont to the fixed income team at JPMAM in London. Interview by Vincent Huck

  • Springing back to life - JGB yields help Japan's CIOs repatriate GAs

    01 March 2023

    It's been an awfully long time coming, but yields on long-dated JGBs are becoming genuinely attractive to many Japanese CIOs - maybe for the first time in their careers, David Walker reports

  • The rise of the chief liquidity officer?

    28 February 2023

    Moving away from traditional assets has raised scrutiny of liquidity risk management. Is there a need for a chief liquidity officer? Sarfraz Thind reports

  • Comment: NAIC's CLO Model - A communal path to policy design

    22 February 2023

    By Amnon Levy and Brett Manning

  • Oliver Bäte offers comfort, reassurance and hope

    21 February 2023

    With Structured Alpha 'behind' it, Allianz is applying the lessons learned to best effect, it told analysts at this month's full-year results presentation. David Walker reports

  • Insurers' investment risk 'in the raw' - laid bare in capital charge patterns

    15 February 2023

    Some fairly simple maths reveals the average pre-diversified capital charge that CIOs across Europe paid for their general account investing in 2020 and 2021. David Walker dug out the data

  • Comment - BMA picks up the 'big stick' for Bermuda's CIOs

    13 February 2023

    The regulator's announcement on illiquids and alternatives was all-stick-no-carrot, but will the BMA bite not just bark, at CIOs?

  • Vain hopes, vain aims, inordinate desires? (Part 2)

    08 February 2023

    A market view on ESG, by Corrado Pistarino, chief investment officer at Foresters Friendly Society

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