Archive

  • Investments blow tailwinds in three MS&AD units, in 1H results

    20 November 2024

    Bond-value recoveries, equity sell-downs and better results benefit non-life, life and foreign divisions

  • Aviva completes £70m buy-in with Rotork

    22 October 2024

    Deal secures benefits of 341 members

  • South Korean insurers' net earnings rose 3% in H1, all thanks to non-life firms

    06 September 2024

    Industry's return on equity brightened to 11.8%

  • APAC Weekly - Sensitive data keeps leaking at Japan's 'porous' non-lifers

    03 September 2024

    Malign hackers blameless in recent spillages of sensitive customer data

  • Strategic stake sell-downs "positive" for credit profile of Japan's major non-lifers

    30 July 2024

    S&P Global Ratings expects the proceeds to be major profit driver for sellers this year

  • APAC Weekly - What Japan's insurers are about to learn, from Robert the Bruce and a spider

    30 July 2024

    In Japan both lifers and general insurers are facing monumental changes from unwinds of strategic investments underway

  • Comment: MS&AD treaded carefully in the minefield of unwinding its cross-holdings

    24 July 2024

    Other Japanese insurers will be wise to follow suit, in describing their 'unwinding' plans

  • Volatile markets create almost half the Q1 jump in capital bill in South Korea

    17 July 2024

    Operational risk also needed more capital behind it, FSS reveals

  • Aviva completes £35m buy-in with Institution of Civil Engineers

    10 July 2024

    Deal secures benefits of 300 scheme members

  • COTW - Round the World with SFCRs - Benelux insurers praise outsourcing partners

    05 July 2024

    As Benelux CIOs generally got better news in 2023 and 2022, back-slapping for mandate managers seemed the order of the day