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Trends in insurance are feeding into consolidation moves in asset management
26 August 2024Moody's senior vice president Benjamin Serra discusses the latest trends in insurance and asset management and how they feed into each other
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APAC Weekly - How Japan's life insurers reach out for private markets investments
20 August 2024Project finance, property and large-cap loans are among areas cited by Moody's as being of interest to CIOs
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Insurance and asset management - a marriage of convenience?
19 August 2024Insurance Asset Risk analyses recent consolidations and sell-offs of AM units at European insurers
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Japan's CIOs have alternatives managers in their sights
17 April 2024The Bank of Japan may have stolen the limelight last month, but insurance CIOs made headlines as well, with eye-catching allocations to non-mainstream assets and emerging managers
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EU Solvency II reforms and a return to low rates could make a sour mix for insurers' solvency ratios, Moody's says
22 March 2024Ratings agency says reforms more reflective of insurers' risks
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Comment - BaFin holds cards (close to its chest) in future of German life-book consolidation
01 February 2024PE part-ownership of Viridium seems to have informed regulator's rejection of Zurich deal
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Direct action - Asset origination moves centre stage in re/insurers' investment plans
20 December 2023From backing BPAs to enhancing investment yields, directly-originated assets, and the managers able to source them, are finding favour among re/insurers worldwide, David Walker discovers
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Lloyd's and Moody's seek industry standard for carbon disclosures
15 September 2023Solution being designed to help insurers tackle increasingly rigorous reporting standards
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Reinsurers to recover from unrealised losses, ratings agencies say
06 September 2023Moody's puts spotlight on significant shift towards investment returns as part of reinsurers' profitability
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Chart of the Week - Eurovita's general account over time, % (2017-2021)
07 July 2023SFCRs show the Italian lifer being rescued by five peers, and banks, shunned risk - including heavy BTP weightings - in its GA