Archive

  • Comment - A good time for insurers to divest Japanese cross-shareholdings?

    09 April 2025

    In turbulent times, major Japanese insurers are trying to work out what price is fair, to unwind significant 'keiretsu'

  • Tokio Marine unit names Mitsubishi in latest $1.3bn strategic-stake sell-off

    03 April 2025

    Insurer will use proceeds for "solving social problems and other growth areas"

  • LGIM backs Moray East offshore transmission assets with £268m

    15 April 2024

    Deal completed alongside consortium of banks

  • Just Group completes £130m buy-in deal with Lucite pension fund

    11 April 2024

    Deal secures benefits of 438 scheme members

  • Chart of the Week - Sumitomo Life's yen for outsourcing, and plans for more of it, in the future

    26 January 2024

    The Japanese lifer has fresh independent asset managers in its sights

  • Chart of the Week - Europe's insurers reveal more strategic planning details

    08 September 2023

    It's not just breakdowns of market risk SCRs that CIOs are telling the world about...

  • Secret plans - CIOs reveal how market risk's SCR elements (should) develop in future

    30 August 2023

    Insurance Risk Data has unearthed strategic data about how Europe's insurers expect the six sub-modules of their market risk SCR to evolve out to 2026. David Walker investigates

  • Large UK local sovereign / premium mismatch unearthed by BIS

    01 March 2023

    Across EEA 51% of sovereigns in GAs are local, EIOPA data shows

  • Notes from a small island - on outsourcing by Bermuda's insurers

    16 December 2021

    David Walker tells the story of how Bermudian CIOs opened up to independent fund managers

  • Nobis reveals logic and costs behind outsourcing decision for equities and credit portfolios

    25 September 2020

    Other details of delegation for 50 Italian insurers, and 1,200 other European/Bermudian underwriters are in new report