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  • NAIC requests feedback on RBC treatment of asset backed securities

    15 February 2022

    Further differentiation of risk across credit holdings needed, Bridgeway Analytics' Levy says

  • 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

  • CECL: US insurers getting to grips with accounting standard overhaul

    09 May 2019

    Like IFRS 9, the US's current expected credit losses (CECL) accounting standard was devised to tackle expected credit losses in financial institution portfolios. The rules, however, appear harsh in relation to the insurance industry. By Sarfraz Thind

  • Provinzial NordWest picks Moody’s Analytics modelling technology

    04 June 2018

    The three selected tools will be used for actuarial valuations and investment analysis