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  • Regulatory intervention still possible as Australian climate reporting unfolds

    12 July 2023

    Taylor Fry warns insurers

  • Comment - Does a CIO need to be 'truly' brave?

    16 January 2023

    Investing can take a steely nerve, but David Walker explores why it sometimes also requires true bravery

  • Investment results dent Australian insurers' Q1 results

    26 May 2022

    Chubb, Allianz and Munich Re among insurers posting sharp income falls

  • Australian CIOs feel brunt of share falls in Q3

    01 December 2021

    Health insurers' net investment income leaps 333% in 9M 2021

  • Large investment losses drive fall in capital in Australian stress tests

    03 August 2021

    APRA discloses key findings of its 2020 stress tests

  • Consider ditching high climate-risk clients, APRA tells insurers

    22 April 2021

    Scenario testing should include temperatures rises exceeding 4 degrees Celsius

  • Australian regulator tells insurers to invest in climate mitigation to protect their premiums

    16 October 2020

    Summerhayes says asset side of the balance sheet should be used in defence of the insurance business

  • Australian insurers lick Q1 investment wounds worth A$10.8bn

    28 May 2020

    Regulator praises industry for deferring dividends, or re-stocking with capital raisings

  • Watchdogs urge insurers to use buffers, not sell assets

    25 March 2020

    Regulators worldwide are leaping in to protect insurers' assets from undue risk

  • No hunt for yield Down Under

    26 February 2020

    While Europe's underwriters are beset by the plague of low yields - epitomised by Swiss debt where yields on maturities out to 50 years are now uniformly negative - the picture is much more mixed in Australia. David Walker reports