Archive

  • APAC Weekly - Equity returns take off in Chinese giants' 1H results

    10 September 2024

    But another peripheral class - CRE debt finance - takes the sheen off otherwise glowing investment outcomes

  • Chinese life investment yields in 2023 revealed

    30 April 2024

    Fitch welcomes cooling in major firms' investment return assumptions

  • Comment: The strong case for ESG investing 'with national characteristics'

    29 February 2024

    From green bonds to "animal attack" insurance, underwriters have an endless list of locally-appropriate ESG actions to take

  • Chinese insurers launch $7bn private fund to invest in stock market

    01 December 2023

    New fund follows regulatory tweaks made by the Chinese government

  • Investment horizon broadens in Asia as rates rise

    25 August 2022

    As rates finally rise again, new investment opportunities are gradually re-opening for the region's CIOs, as David Walker finds out

  • Chinese lifers cut back risky investments in Q1, Fitch finds

    20 May 2022

    Core solvency ratios fall in Q1 despite use of new rules' transitional measures

  • Fitch Ratings warns of Chinese life insurers risky holdings

    23 June 2021

    Upcoming C-ROSS update to make insurers more cautious in investment decisions

  • Generali linked to New China Life investment portfolio

    28 August 2020

    Italian's Chinese asset manager named in relation to insurer's non-standard investment portfolio

  • New China Life investigates property for having "controllable risks" in H1

    26 August 2020

    Reveals corporate finance and infrastructure investments within non-standard portfolio

  • China's regulator spells out loosening of equities investment limits

    23 July 2020

    Ceilings will be tied to solvency ratios, CBIRC explains