Archive

  • Will the NAIC's new regulations change insurer's attitudes to private credit investments?

    03 February 2025

    David Zhang, director at New York-based advisory firm MSCI, discusses how US insurers are coping with a torrent of new regulation from the NAIC

  • Asia Investor Group on Climate Change appoints energy transition manager

    27 January 2025

    Minako Takaba will oversee alliance's energy transition activities from Tokyo

  • The NAIC is cooking up a hearty bowl of reform, how should US insurers prepare for the meal?

    20 January 2025

    From risk-based capital to GEMS and the Insurer Investment Regulation Framework, 2025 could be a busy year

  • It's complicated: Avalanche of reforms test US insurers relationship with NAIC

    07 October 2024

    US insurers are currently facing an avalanche of new regulations to assimilate into their practice

  • CIOs act further on climate investing in 2023, as Nat Cats give underwriters a 'breather'

    02 May 2024

    In 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

  • Nippon Life makes recruitment push for investment sales staff

    06 March 2024

    Japanese lifer's affiliate aiming to support Tokyo's national asset management ambitions

  • Comment: Share prices suggest insurers' shareholders might not care much about the 'G' in ESG

    26 February 2024

    Shareholders of Japan's insurers pocketed 150% since Q1 2020 while the Topix made 98% - so do the sector's governance issues matter?

  • Japanese watchdog gets 21 takers for ESG data code of conduct

    22 January 2024

    Code's founding technical committee chaired by professor Tetsuo Kitagawa of Aoyama Gakuin University

  • Insurance Asset Risk Americas 2023 conference round up

    26 September 2023

    The conference was held in New York on 26 September and highlighted key opportunities in private markets as well as challenges in the regulatory space

  • Zurich UK switches almost $1bn to new ESG index

    20 July 2021

    Passive US equity mandates moved to DWS fund tracking new MSCI index