Analysis

  • Solvency II review and the sustainability debate: old habits & new ideas

    26 September 2022

    Carlos Montalvo Rebuelta looks at how sustainability could add purpose to the Insurance industry and why it's the stumbling block of the current Solvency II review

  • DWS seeking solutions to APAC's next big challenge - funding retirements

    21 September 2022

    As the APAC population ages, insurers, asset managers and governments are among those seeking solutions to an emerging challenge: funding retirement. DWS's Ellen Yang is working to bring reinsurers' balance sheet to that equation, for the benefit of all, she tells David Walker

  • Arena Capital the smooth operator

    19 September 2022

    High yield is usually associated with high risk. But Arena Capital is showing it need not be so—it has produced stellar returns for insurers in recent times and in doing so smoothed out some of the volatility associated with the asset class. Sarfraz Thind reports

  • TC Wilson: the reluctant CIO

    14 September 2022

    Never one to shirk a challenge, TC Wilson has gone from a finance sceptic to manage the funds for the US's largest physician-owned medical malpractice insurer. He tells his story to Sarfraz Thind

  • Do rising rates signal a volte-face by reinsurers on illiquid assets?

    12 September 2022

    With RVS in Monte Carlo well underway, Abbie Wood spoke to industry experts to learn how rising interest rates could push reinsurers away from the illiquid assets from which they once sought yield... but not all the experts agree.

  • At the ready - what APAC insurers should consider as new IFRS standards approach

    12 September 2022

    Max Davies and Francisco Sebastian of Wellington Management discuss with David Walker how IFRS standards stand to affect insurers in APAC, and beyond, and the various aspects of their businesses underwriters should be considering, to best position themselves for the change

  • The NAIC's alternative to agency ratings

    07 September 2022

    Ahead of the end of the public comment period next week on potential changes to the NAIC's reliance on rating agencies, Amnon Levy and Bill Poutsiaka explore the implications of such changes for insurers

  • Biden's Infla... Investment Reduction Act?

    05 September 2022

    The US Chamber of Commerce has criticised President Biden's Inflation Reduction Act, warning that it will "discourage investments" and "undermine economic growth", but do the means justify the ends when it comes to ESG? Abbie Wood finds out

  • Solvency II review rapporteur gets spiky with EIOPA

    31 August 2022

    European members of parliament are back from their summer holidays, and there promises to be a heated debate on Solvency II before the review even goes to trilogue. Vincent Huck reports

  • Hedge funds back in vogue

    29 August 2022

    Derided for years by insurance investors, hedge funds are back in fashion. Could it be the revival of a beautiful friendship? Sarfraz Thind asks

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