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  • Macquarie University prices inaugural bonds

    30 August 2018

    With one bond allocated to asset managers and life insurance funds largely based in Australia

  • Widening spread of Italian debt takes big toll on capital ratios

    10 August 2018

    But hasn’t materially deteriorated insurers’ underlying risk profile, according to Moody’s

  • Climate change increases cost of debt for developing countries

    17 July 2018

    The intensification of climate risks and the degree to which they are accurately priced by financial markets are of increasing concern to global economic stability. However, as awareness around those risks has risen over the last years, there is still a long way to go to consistently measure and monitor their costs, which can result in substantial gains or losses for institutional investors. Vincent Huck reports

  • US commercial real estate: danger in disguise?

    10 July 2018

    US life insurers are big investors in commercial real estate attracted by the yield and diversification benefits they offer. But with strong indicators of the current credit cycle nearing its end, the risks attached to the sector are growing. Is it still safe to go into those waters? By Sarfraz Thind

  • Argentina woes: if you get all tangled up, just tango on

    19 June 2018

    Soaring interest rates and economic turmoil are causing problems for Argentine insurers, and they must also adapt to new rules preventing them from investing in their favourite financial instrument. Vincent Huck reports

  • Italy debt holdings hit Unipol and Allianz units

    31 May 2018

    Moody's warns of downgrades, but spares more diverse Generali business

  • Provinzial NordWest subsidiaries add third equities strategy

    29 May 2018

    SFCRs show divergent allocation tastes within group

  • Japanese life insurers show resilience to ultra-low rates

    11 December 2017

    Almost exactly one year after Moody's downgraded its outlook for Japanese life insurers to negative, it has returned its outlook to 'stable'

  • Admiral licenses ESG from Moody's Analytics

    16 October 2017

    For modelling market risk and investments

  • New tools for understanding the impact of investment decisions on capital

    22 September 2017

    Insurers are under increasing pressure to manage the sensitivity of solvency ratios to their asset mix, but even sophisticated internal models may not be up to this task. Steven Morrison describes an alternative approach using proxy modelling