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  • Moody's upgrades UnipolSai's outlook from "negative" to "stable"

    22 November 2023

    Change follows similar upgrade of Italian sovereign rating and reduction in exposure to Italian assets

  • European insurers' demand for illiquid assets to decline, Moody's predicts

    16 November 2023

    Agency also foresees pursuit of quality in higher interest era

  • 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

  • Reinsurers' solvency ratios benefit from rising interest rates, Moody's says

    31 August 2023

    Rates hikes in 2022 good for European reinsurers investment returns and solvency ratios, but rates trajectory in 2023 unclear

  • BPA deal intensity creating liquidity pressures, says Phoenix Group

    01 August 2023

    Predicts mega-deals will become the norm

  • Better ALM helping APAC insurers navigate investment risk

    27 July 2023

    Frank Yuen, vice president for Asia financial institutions at Moody's, discusses the key risks faced by insurers in the APAC region. Interview by Vincent Huck

  • Comment - Italians' famed civility might be sorely tested, by Eurovita's gating

    06 July 2023

    IVASS has locked policyholders in until November

  • Moody's explains, and welcomes, Eurovita rescue plan

    06 July 2023

    The 'rescuing' insurers will share assets and liabilities, while banks cover liquidity from November

  • Intensifying competition amongst insurers for illiquid assets on the horizon

    09 June 2023

    According to Moody's who delivers outlook for the asset class at its conference

  • UK residential property market outlook negative - but better than CRE, Moody's says

    09 June 2023

    At its European Insurance Conference, due to rising interest rates and political sensitivities