Analysis

  • Insurers caught up in the Swiss bad apple

    22 March 2023

    The bad news seeping out of the US in the wake of SVB was magnified this month by the fall of Credit Suisse. The damage to insurers' portfolios to this once august banking institution is for now not too bad. Could there be worse to come? Sarfraz Thind reports

  • The return to the promised land

    20 March 2023

    After a decade of eking out pitiful returns on their traditional fixed income assets insurers are finally seeing the return of higher interest rates. Will this herald a shift out of risky assets? A recent publication by the NAIC outlines the possibilities. Sarfraz Thind reports

  • Global Atlantic's CIO talks shop

    15 March 2023

    Anup Agarwal, CIO, explains why Global Atlantic does not support US insurance regulators proposed changes on structured assets' capital charges calibrations. Interview by Sarfraz Thind

  • 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

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