Archive

  • Comment - Chinese insurers find good luck, or good planning, in regulator's move on gold

    13 February 2025

    NFRA has begun letting 10 large underwriters make some bullion-related investments

  • Chinese regulator launches gold investment pilot programme for 10 insurers

    12 February 2025

    NFRA named insurers involved and launched programme on Friday

  • APAC Weekly - Equity returns take off in Chinese giants' 1H results

    10 September 2024

    But another peripheral class - CRE debt finance - takes the sheen off otherwise glowing investment outcomes

  • Ageas makes RMB 1.1bn investment in China Taiping pensions unit

    21 May 2024

    Belgian has worked with Chinese group since 2001

  • Chart of the Week - Hong Kong's RBC rules and their capital charges for CIOs

    26 April 2024

    The risk-factor charges Hong Kong's CIOs will apply under RBC appeared in a long document today, for various asset classes and risk types

  • Investment horizon broadens in Asia as rates rise

    25 August 2022

    As rates finally rise again, new investment opportunities are gradually re-opening for the region's CIOs, as David Walker finds out

  • Closing comment - C-Ross Phase II takes flight

    10 May 2022

    China's insurers and regulators gear up for take-off under the country's revised regulations

  • Forward-thinking - what's on the mind of Teddy Au Yeung, China Taiping Life's CFO

    04 May 2022

    From the reality of C-Ross Phase II to considering virtual reality for recruitment and claims assessment, Chinese CFOs have lots on their minds, as David Walker found out speaking with China Taiping Life's Teddy Au Yeung

  • Asia - how to keep calm in a storm

    13 January 2021

    Asian insurers were the first to suffer from COVID-19, including in their general account investments, but industry practitioners and analysts see a robust industry navigating seemingly endless low rates. David Walker reports

  • China Taiping seeks high-dividend stocks and longer duration

    26 August 2020

    Asset manager's operating profit jumps 15% in H1