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Euro lifers' Solvency II ratios solid despite likely ECB rate cuts, Fitch says
13 May 2024Agency forecasts cuts to 3.8% by end-2024 and 3.0% by end-2025
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Core competency - Lloyd's syndicates go outsourcing, and not just for peripheral assets
08 May 2024Lloyd's syndicates hire external help for the core of their general accounts, even if delegating makes more headlines when non-mainstream assets are involved
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Solvency UK's MA reform "not likely a game changer", S&P says
07 May 2024Insurers unlikely to take inclusion of highly predictable cash flows to the extreme
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CIOs act further on climate investing in 2023, as Nat Cats give underwriters a 'breather'
02 May 2024In severe 'Nat Cat years' before 2023, CIOs at Lloyd's acted as 'cash registers', disgorging cash to meet steep property claims. Last year, a 'break in the weather' let them 'take stock', and many seized that 'down-time' to progress climate-investing with managers and funds
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BMA regulatory reforms get thumbs up from Fitch
01 May 2024Agency says changes support insurer credit profiles, while cautioning against regulatory arbitrage
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Chinese life investment yields in 2023 revealed
30 April 2024Fitch welcomes cooling in major firms' investment return assumptions
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Chart of the Week - Hong Kong's RBC rules and their capital charges for CIOs
26 April 2024The risk-factor charges Hong Kong's CIOs will apply under RBC appeared in a long document today, for various asset classes and risk types
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Canada Life completes £46m buy-in with Lexmark pension plan
24 April 2024Deal secures the benefits of scheme's 177 members
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Impairment issues in CRE not a rating worry for Korean insurers, Fitch says
23 April 2024Revealing CRE overseas exposure of Korean insurers
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Rescuers of Eurovita divulge details of IVASS' bail-out plan in SFCRs
22 April 2024Lifer faced redemption and solvency pressure before rivals took on assets, and policies