Archive

• Chart of the week: Duration gap leads to investment risk up North

  12 November 2021

  Nordics exposed to reinvestment risk

• Nordic insurers' earnings supported by high-risk assets

  11 November 2021

  Strong capital position offers hedge to market movements

• Chinese authorities issue opinion on corporate bond market

  24 August 2021

  As investors fear defaults and rating mismatches

• The RBC changes: a slow-moving Titanic

  20 July 2021

  It is a slow change, even by the notoriously slow standards of the insurance industry. However, the soon-to-be instigated changes to the NAIC's risk-based capital charges on fixed income assets could have significant ramifications for the US insurance investment portfolio. And many don't like it. Sarfraz Thind reports

• Asset risk still "high pressure point" for Italian insurers, Moody's warns

  18 March 2021

  Due to their concentration to domestic govvies

• Axa bids a gradual 'adieu' to the burdens of traditional life

  10 March 2021

  Unit-linked products are being pushed, with force, by Axa, AG2R, CNP Assurances

• Credit migration could slash 30 points from European life firm solvency

  11 January 2021

  Moody's calls downgrades "key source of risk" in coming months

• The role of ETFs in insurers' portfolios

  22 December 2020

  Insurance Asset Risk survey finds increased interest in asset class

• Chinese insurers face investment income volatility with increased allocation to equity

  07 December 2020

  But credit risk mitigated from reduced allocation to alternatives, Moody's says

• Fitch downgrades Volkswohl Bund Leben on reinvestment yield

  03 November 2020

  Moody's hangs negative outlook on German life sector