Archive

  • APAC Weekly - Japan's insurers may not 'roar' in overseas M&A deals, but increasingly they want the lion's share

    24 March 2025

    It would be misplaced to say the Japanese want back-row seats in global expansion

  • T&D Holdings to pay JPY 120bn as part of Viridium buyer consortium

    21 March 2025

    Japanese group will hold 29.9% of the life book consolidator if the deal is allowed

  • Insurers worldwide seek lessons from LA's infernos

    05 March 2025

    From California to Australia, stakeholders in assessing, covering and combatting wildfire risk tell David Walker lessons will be learned from Los Angeles's horrors

  • Private credit, insurance now make up over half Blackstone, Apollo, KKR and Carlyle portfolio, says Moody's

    22 January 2025

    A decade ago, these classes were just one-third of those alternative managers' businesses

  • Apcia calls for cat bond issue, to "recapitalise and stabilise" FAIR Plan

    22 January 2025

    California's lawmakers introduced legislation on 9 January to let FAIR Plan use bond issue proceeds

  • Insurers' private credit holdings set to grow, Moody's finds

    08 January 2025

    Asset-based finance and private placements most attractive

  • Taiju Life backs IBRD sustainable development bond

    02 January 2025

    Lifer has targeted 15 years' duration in three recent fixed income allocations

  • Moody's downgrade of France, the more things change the more they stay the same

    18 December 2024

    Insurers and their asset managers react to the ramifications of the rating change going forward

  • Insurers to increase exposure to fund finance, Moody's says

    22 October 2024

    Ratings agency sees sublines market supply-demand imbalance as an opening for nontraditional lenders

  • APAC insurers taking materially higher asset risk then US peers, Moody's Ratings finds

    15 October 2024

    Ratings agency used its M'CT analytical tool to compare underwriters across regions