Archive

  • IAR Real Assets: Insurers "walking away" from infra transactions due to pricing

    31 March 2025

    Panellists at Insurance Asset Risk's Real Assets conference highlight pricing challenges in infrastructure

  • IAR Real Assets: Markets failing to price growth risk for 2025, insurers say

    31 March 2025

    Speakers at Insurance Asset Risk's Real Assets conference in London highlight volatility and uncertainty prompted by Trump administration

  • Zurich "cautiously optimistic" ahead of 2 April tariff announcements

    28 March 2025

    But unpredictability - on the upside or downside - still means markets and investors must hold their breath until 'liberation day'

  • EIOPA recommends 100% capital charge for crypto assets

    28 March 2025

    Authority published its advice to the European Commission, yesterday

  • Comment - A CIO must be a 'prudent person', EIOPA says - but apply 100% capital charges to crypto holdings, just in case

    28 March 2025

    EIOPA's advice for a 100% risk charge for the likes of Bitcoin and Ethereum make sense. It's whether the investments do or don't....

  • Comment: Chinese insurers hear Beijing loud and clear: "Back AI"

    26 March 2025

    Influential bodies are promoting the benefits to insurers, and China, of backing AI firms

  • Chinese insurance AMs discuss benefits of AI investing at Shenzhen seminar

    26 March 2025

    Attendees hear that 2025 could be "the first real year of the AI industry"

  • TMAM cites US tariffs as potential roadblock to BoJ rate hike by July

    24 March 2025

    Economic variables otherwise augur well for outlook in Japan, TMAM says

  • Falling UK car insurance premiums have implications for motor insurance CIOs

    21 March 2025

    The largest annual decline since 2014

  • Next BoE cut still May, RLAM says, though fuller picture still to emerge

    21 March 2025

    Senior economist says BoE still concerned about persistent inflation