Archive

  • L&G ramps up direct investments to back annuities

    15 March 2016

    UK insurer plans to write up to £500m of lifetime mortgages

  • ECB's resolutions strike insurers

    10 March 2016

    Lower interest rates and increased QE is bad news for the sector

  • Solvency II equity dampener hits the floor

    10 March 2016

    Back to level recorded at the height of the Eurozone crisis

  • How does Brexit affect insurers' assets?

    09 March 2016

    Aside from a currency impact, likely effects include market volatility, a hit on UK government bonds and wider corporate spreads. Benedicte Gravrand reports

  • London manager launches its first UCITS-compliant cat bond fund

    08 March 2016

    Fund targets European investors seeking diversification

  • Plans to risk-weight sovereign bonds threaten financial stability - UnipolSai

    07 March 2016

    UnipolSai's Cimbri delivers impassioned plea

  • Avoid high yield, bank stocks, and long-term government bonds - Bill Gross

    04 March 2016

    Financial system is past its glory days for good

  • Taiwan eases derivatives rules for life insurers

    23 February 2016

    As Taiwan's life insurance market is growing, the supervisor is easing hedging rules

  • 'Brexit' would hit gilts and sterling

    19 February 2016

    Pimco sees 40% chance of Brexit

  • Life insurers are paying dearly for central bank policies - Geneva Association

    19 February 2016

    The insurance industry think tank says low rates may have staved off a great recession, but the policy is eroding the value of life insurers to society