Archive

  • Chart of the Week - IMF recommends Indonesia develops strategy for climate financing by insurers

    23 August 2024

    Fund recognises transition risk facing underwriters, in coal-exporting nation

  • A Lasting legacy - How Medvida is still helping Spanish lifers shed unwanted backbooks

    26 June 2024

    Life consolidation and backbook deals may have hit hurdles in Germany, but in Spain Antonio Trueba, CEO of consolidator Medvida Partners paints a different picture

  • IMF recommends more thorough review of Japanese insurers' asset risk by FSA

    27 May 2024

    In latest Assessment of Observance on Insurance Core Principles report

  • PE backers to stoke US annuity market even as lapse payouts top premiums

    23 January 2024

    AM Best sees new PE- and AM-backed underwriters as fuelling competition

  • Comment - How life insurers might respond to the IMF on private equity risks

    08 January 2024

    The IMF listed various risks of growing PE involvement in the re/insurance industry

  • Shift to illiquids has heightened risk for US insurers, says Fitch

    28 November 2023

    Rating agency says PE-insurers have most exposure and could face shock when assets revalued

  • IMF warns of PE-insurer risk and calls for more international regulatory scrutiny

    17 October 2023

    PE-insurers have more asset risk and regulatory arbitrage activity than rest of industry

  • NZAOA reiterates call to G7 for development banks and institutions reform

    05 April 2023

    To ensure just transition through low-carbon energy supply to EMs

  • IMF warns of yield shock risk for life insurers

    13 October 2021

    UK and US insurers most vulnerable with potential 30% loss in worst-case scenario

  • BTPs - the love affair Italian CIOs can't quite let go of...

    16 September 2021

    Italians love their domestic government bonds, and although regulators beg for diversification, CIOs are in no rush to let go. Abbie Wood reports