News

• SLA, Aviva and Columbia Threadneedle close UK property funds

  18 March 2020

  Market turmoil making it impossible to assign value to commercial real estate

• Fitch Ratings weighs in on COVID-19 impact on APAC and Europe

  18 March 2020

  Drops rating outlook for APAC Life insurance to negative and identifies Europe's reinsurers' risks

• Dai-ichi Life issues ¥1.1bn sustainability linked loan

  18 March 2020

  Interest on loan reduced or exempted if client beats target score

• Aviva reports lowest coverage ratio since 2016

  17 March 2020

  Estimate doesn't include COVID-19, but insurer remains confident with ratio still in working range

• Markel kills two birds with one stone in latest acquisition

  17 March 2020

  Acquires Lansing Building Products which is itself acquiring Harvey Building Products

• AMP life and its investments unit fined for reporting failures

  17 March 2020

  Derivatives trade reporting inadequacies cost insurer and its affiliate a A$525,000 penalty

• Allianz acquires €214m Munich office

  16 March 2020

  German insurer identifies Munich as key real estate market going forward

• Talanx reports net investment return jump of 15%

  16 March 2020

  German group to persist with conservative investment approach

• Japan regulator reveals insurers' JPY 32trn Libor challenge

  16 March 2020

  All but JPY 6trn of underwriters' asset and investment exposure runs through 2021

• Coronavirus to heighten investment risk in South Korea insurers

  16 March 2020

  Fitch warns of danger as Moody's acts on Hanwha Life