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  • Global insurers boosted junk bond exposure by 33% in 2020, IAIS finds

    01 December 2021

    North America has the highest exposure - and the world's most generous life firms

  • Climate impact on assets could cost 50% drop to insurers' solvency ratios

    01 October 2021

    But IAIS says industry has enough capital to absorb these investments losses

  • IAIS reiterates FSB's LIBOR transition timeline for insurers

    01 July 2021

    Firms should already have fallback arrangements in place

  • Insurers don't need another liquidity risk metric, Insurance Europe tells IAIS

    15 February 2021

    IAIS proposing a holistic framework for systemic risk

  • Insurers placing less emphasis on climate risk in investments

    07 December 2020

    Climate risk underweighted in asset management versus underwriting, IAIS meeting participants say

  • Supervisors should step up Libor transition work, IAIS warns

    09 July 2020

    Considerable portion of financial institutions are yet to start transition, research finds

  • Keep TCFD recommendations voluntary, says Insurance Europe

    07 February 2020

    Lobby group responds to IAIS climate disclosure paper

  • Climate change impacts asset value, UN study finds

    09 August 2018

    Insurers increasingly ESG screen their investments, but even the value of their favoured asset is at risk

  • 'Bring it on': California commissioner bullish on fossil fuel divestment

    14 July 2017

    Commissioner Dave Jones was threatened with legal action from 12 Republican attorney generals who oppose his fossil fuel investments disclosure initiative. The threats appear to have spurred Jones on, however. Callum Tanner reports

  • IAIS flags concern over illiquid corporate bond markets

    18 January 2016

    Supervisors urged to re-examine asset portfolios