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Forward-thinking - what's on the mind of Teddy Au Yeung, China Taiping Life's CFO
04 May 2022From the reality of C-Ross Phase II to considering virtual reality for recruitment and claims assessment, Chinese CFOs have lots on their minds, as David Walker found out speaking with China Taiping Life's Teddy Au Yeung
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A match, a spark! - the MA ignites UK lifers' investment appetites
02 May 2022The MA has given UK lifers about £400bn of capital benefit since 2016 - and more fruitful use of it to invest in the real economy could yet come, if HM Treasury's proposals are enacted. David Walker investigates
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CFO interview: navigating China's regulatory and growth currents
29 April 2022As chief financial officer at AIA Life Insurance in China, Leo Ng is used to being the fastest-growing unit of the Australasian insurance giant. He tells David Walker of the opportunities, and challenges, in Mainland China.
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China's Insurance Industry (almost) in eight charts
27 April 2022David Walker draws on diverse data sources, to chart eight exhibits that give glimpse into the insurance industry of the world's most populous country and second largest economy
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Reasons to be cheerful as US CIOs doubly thankful for property's yield and inflation protection
25 April 2022Four Insurance CIOs describe at the Insurance Asset Risk 2022 real asset conference how they moved into real assets primarily for yield, but now see the asset class as a great hedge against inflation, too. Vincent Huck reports
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Allianz sees promise, in a life of less promises
22 April 2022Once, lifers gave CEOs headaches and ate up their capital. But now, David Walker finds, it's their CEOs hungry for more, in a 'capital-lite' world
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'R': the answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, The Universe, and Everything (insurance)?
20 April 2022Two economists disagree on current levels of recessionary risk during the Insurance Asset Risk 2022 Real Assets conference. Vincent Huck reports
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Ratings agencies have 'positive outlook' on China's C-Ross Phase II
18 April 2022Fitch and Moody's tell David Walker Phase II new rules may lower average solvency ratios, but they will lift risk- and capital management, including for investments, at insurers
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Lloyd's syndicates reveal investment fortunes - or lack thereof - in 2021
13 April 2022From low rates to rising inflation, ESG to net zero, syndicates' CIOs have their hands full in 2022. David Walker reports
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APAC nations boost green bond efforts to satisfy insurers' demand
11 April 2022APAC's insurers tell David Walker they want more green and sustainable bonds - including more of the high-quality paper from their own neck of the woods
- Insurers hopeful Solvency II LTE reform will unlock €100bn RE opportunity
- Expect NAIC to shift gears on RBC reform in 2026, Wellington Management says
- NAIC takes aim at insurer investment subsidiaries
- The savings illusion: why Europe needs investment, not deposits - and the insurers' role
- Solvency II changes a "meaningful step" for securitised assets' allure, S&P says
- Expect lower growth in 2026 - but AI bubble not about to burst, Aviva Investors says
- Generali's Infranity invests in Irish independent power producer
- Private credit: are headline news and underlying performance one and the same?
- Private credit: an evolution of skills, a revolution of relations
- Canada Life completes £330m buy-in with Comet pension scheme