Archive

  • Moody's welcomes extra scrutiny by Japan's watchdogs of insurers' private credit

    11 November 2024

    Lifers have liberated capital for re-use, from lowering interest rate risk

  • Trends in insurance are feeding into consolidation moves in asset management

    26 August 2024

    Moody's senior vice president Benjamin Serra discusses the latest trends in insurance and asset management and how they feed into each other

  • APAC Weekly - How Japan's life insurers reach out for private markets investments

    20 August 2024

    Project finance, property and large-cap loans are among areas cited by Moody's as being of interest to CIOs

  • Insurance and asset management - a marriage of convenience?

    19 August 2024

    Insurance Asset Risk analyses recent consolidations and sell-offs of AM units at European insurers

  • Japan's CIOs have alternatives managers in their sights

    17 April 2024

    The 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

  • EU Solvency II reforms and a return to low rates could make a sour mix for insurers' solvency ratios, Moody's says

    22 March 2024

    Ratings agency says reforms more reflective of insurers' risks

  • Comment - BaFin holds cards (close to its chest) in future of German life-book consolidation

    01 February 2024

    PE part-ownership of Viridium seems to have informed regulator's rejection of Zurich deal

  • Direct action - Asset origination moves centre stage in re/insurers' investment plans

    20 December 2023

    From 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

  • Lloyd's and Moody's seek industry standard for carbon disclosures

    15 September 2023

    Solution being designed to help insurers tackle increasingly rigorous reporting standards

  • Reinsurers to recover from unrealised losses, ratings agencies say

    06 September 2023

    Moody's puts spotlight on significant shift towards investment returns as part of reinsurers' profitability