Archive

  • Chart of the week - EM funding shortfalls for required climate investments, 2016-2030

    07 January 2022

    Emerging markets are going to need insurers, and badly, to meet their climate investment requirements

  • Hong Kong regulator introduces hybrid product to close HK$6.9trn 'mortality gap'

    06 January 2022

    Protection-linked plans hoped to serve customers and lifers alike

  • Hong Kong's regulator invites lifers to adopt RBC early

    04 January 2022

    Life firm practitioners say RBC is already guiding investment decisions

  • AIA president says renewables key to helping Mainland economy thrive

    30 December 2021

    Underwriters put HK$270bn in bonds annually, "but not because we are getting a particularly good yield and certainly not a good spread"

  • Comment - Enter the dragon? Will Hong Kong's CIOs be persuaded, or compelled, to invest in China?

    28 December 2021

    Hong Kong's insurers must meet claims/promises, but are being told they should support the Mainland's economy, too

  • Mainland China is Hong Kong's green finance future, investors say

    23 December 2021

    Insurance conference hears HK has "natural advantage" to help Beijing achieve net zero

  • Mainland China turns Hong Kong insurers green - with desire

    22 December 2021

    As the world's second-largest economy pledges to become net-zero by 2060, the Hong Kong Insurance Authority's annual conference heard $1trn of green investing opportunities lie just across the border. David Walker reports

  • Chart of the week - How Bermudian CIOs assess potential impact of global warming, 2021

    10 December 2021

    Insurers' CIOs in Bermuda turn their thoughts to another 'high watermark'

  • Hong Kong's regulator foresees surge in unit-linked sales

    02 December 2021

    Due to forthcoming risk-based capital rules

  • Dubai's regulator launches task force on sustainable finance

    22 November 2021

    Insurers amongst 12 initial members