Analysis

  • Comment: Pastures new - ALM in today's reporting environment

    20 April 2020

    Stuart Jarvis looks at how reporting rules have developed and why they are tightening, and how insurers can approach investment decisions in the new ALM landscape.

  • IFRS 9 implementation - the sooner one starts the better

    15 April 2020

    Based on their experience with a joint insurance clients, JP Morgan Asset Management and Clearwater Analytics discuss the ins and outs of implementing the accounting standard, and why insurers should start early. Interview by Vincent Huck

  • CIOs start assessing 'what next', despite continued volatility

    13 April 2020

    Investment markets look for brighter days even while the gloomiest persist. Some insurers' chief investment officers are doing the same, as David Walker reports

  • Suspension of dividend payments, more firepower for the investment teams?

    09 April 2020

    As some insurers follow suit on regulators' urge not to pay dividends and others refuse to comply, Vincent Huck looks at whether dividend retention could result in more ammunition for the investment teams to invest in markets

  • Asset risk: Open hunting season or fool's gold?

    07 April 2020

    Sarfraz Thind takes a deep dive into how Covid-19 has distorted the market. In part one of this two part series he looks at commercial mortgage-backed securitisations (CMBS), collateralised loan obligation (CLO) and municipal bonds.

  • IAR SURVEY: Insurers unprepared for COVID-19's market turbulence

    06 April 2020

    Insurance Asset Risk surveyed the industry to find out how it is rethinking asset allocation in the wake of COVID-19's impact on the economy and financial markets. Vincent Huck presents the results

  • No yield, too few bunds - what investment trials mean for 2020 Review

    03 April 2020

    Frank Schiller, board member of the DAV, tells David Walker in a far ranging interview his thoughts on the 2020 Solvency II review and where he believes EIOPA needs to step up its work.

  • SII reporting delays: thanks but no thanks

    01 April 2020

    As European regulators offer some leeway on Solvency II regulatory reporting deadlines, insurers seem inclined to follow the original schedule. Begging the question of how to account for the COVID-19 impact. David Walker reports

  • China's insurance giants divulge the finer details of investment outsourcing

    30 March 2020

    Could European underwriters have a thing or two to learn from their Chinese counterparts when it comes to transparency in their reporting? David Walker takes a closer look

  • Insurers advised to stay put with EM holdings amid COVID-19 chaos

    25 March 2020

    With lower ratings than their developed market counterparts and potential economic dependencies to oil, emerging markets are on the frontline of the COVID-19 crisis. It is raising questions for insurers' allocation to the asset class. Vincent Huck reports

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