Archive

  • US insurers retreated from CMBS in 2023, NAIC finds

    07 November 2024

    Decline driven by 5.6% year-over-year (YOY) drop in private-label CMBS

  • Chart of the Week - Are PE owners stripping capital out of Bermudian re/insurers they own?

    20 September 2024

    Any insurance regulator's concern is an owner who takes more than it gives, in capital terms

  • IAR North America 2024 round up

    16 September 2024

    Insurance Risk and Capital Americas, an Insurance Asset Risk and InsuranceERM conference, took place on 16 September tackling regulation, private credit and illiquidity considerations amongst other topics

  • IAR North America 24: NAIC aims to reduce "blind reliance" on credit rating providers

    16 September 2024

    Regulation has to keep pace with technology, regulator adds

  • Comment: A new dawn in investment oversight: An update from the 2024 NAIC summer meeting

    28 August 2024

    Amnon Levy describes recent developments at the NAIC to modernize investment oversight

  • A Lasting legacy - How Medvida is still helping Spanish lifers shed unwanted backbooks

    26 June 2024

    Life consolidation and backbook deals may have hit hurdles in Germany, but in Spain Antonio Trueba, CEO of consolidator Medvida Partners paints a different picture

  • NAIC's filing exempt proposal will create "fundamental uncertainty" on investment decisions, says BlackRock

    10 January 2024

    SVO presented tweaks to original proposals at Fall meeting

  • Insurers living through the Fixed Income Renaissance, MetLife IM head of insurance says

    28 December 2023

    Ruth Farrugia delivers 2024 outlook to Insurance Asset Risk

  • Comment: The NAIC's evolving reliance on agency ratings

    19 December 2023

    Amnon Levy analyses the developments from the 2023 Fall National Meeting

  • US insurer equity holdings dropped last year in wake of stock market rout

    30 November 2023

    Positive equity returns in 2023 have benefited insurers, NAIC finds