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  • Insurance Asset Risk EMEA 2023 conference round up

    12 June 2023

    The conference was held in London on 12 June and highlighted the investment risks and opportunities facing insurers. Vincent Huck reports

  • US life insurers well positioned to absorb steep downturn in CRE markets, Moody's says

    01 June 2023

    Industry's $600bn commercial mortgage loan holdings most at risk from market crash

  • Investment volatility and rising rates will keep lapse risk high in 2023, expect Italy's lifers

    05 May 2023

    Latest solvency reports described ways they combatted surrender risk in 2022

  • Comment - Rome turns into life insurers' competitor, as BTP yields jump

    03 May 2023

    Moody's posited sovereign debt as one rival investment to local lifers' policy promises

  • French lifers emphasise GA asset liquidity in fight against lapse risk

    21 April 2023

    Moody's report yesterday highlighted French insurer vulnerability to lapse risk as interest rates rise

  • Moody's warns of mass policy lapse and unrealised investment losses

    20 April 2023

    As double-whammy risk to European insurers in the midst of further potential interest-rate hikes

  • Chart of the week: IFRS 9 classification conundrum in APAC

    14 April 2023

    As IFRS 17 and 9 tops Asian insurers' priority lists, according to Abrdn survey

  • UK insurers to increase illiquid asset risk exposure as BPA market accelerates

    27 March 2023

    Yet, allocation to illiquids still credit positive, according to Moody's

  • P&C insurers face FI investment reduction due to interest rate increases, Moody's says

    05 December 2022

    But short duration investments give opportunity to increase overall returns

  • Chart of the Week - Rising Rates Leave their Mark on General Accounts

    25 November 2022

    Depressing fixed income values, but raising yields in 2022...