Archive

  • Australians start taking climate change (almost) as seriously as sport

    06 March 2025

    A tropical cyclone this week forced relocation of rugby matches, as the awful enormity of global warming finally dawns on the Aussies

  • APAC Weekly - How insurers' involvement with reinsurers is deepening, and broadening

    04 March 2025

    Not only a 'lifesaver' for APAC's CUOs, reinsurers are becoming targets for APAC CIOs

  • Why non-life CIOs may struggle in fight for APAC's spare capital

    24 February 2025

    An APAC bond yield of 2.4%? Or an insurance operation's 19%? Take your pick...

  • APAC Weekly - India opens GA-floodgates for local investments, or maybe not...

    04 February 2025

    India's federal budget for 2025/2026 is removing the FDI cap for insurers, but with GA-strings attached. CUOs may love it, but will CIOs take the bait?

  • QBE joins venture to fund climate- and socially-aware businesses

    23 January 2025

    Catalysing Impact will match business' funding with grants of up to $400,000

  • APAC Weekly - Why LA's burning matters for APAC insurers

    14 January 2025

    Wildfires reveal connectedness of global insurance industry

  • Comment: Disorderly to disastrous, Australia's energy transition lurches off-course (again)

    30 December 2024

    CIOs are now faced with more coal burning, while nuclear reactors get financed and built

  • Comment - Postcard from Downunder - 'Welcome to the Climate Crisis'

    28 November 2024

    Australia's insurers essentially told, fossil fuel production is making your product unaffordable

  • APAC Weekly - Were Australian non-lifers' latest financial results a spectacular own-goal?

    27 August 2024

    Come rain or shine, Australia's general insurers are under somewhat of a cloud

  • QBE to lose $1.6bn of investment assets in North American reinsurance deal

    09 August 2024

    Australian groups also building a HTM portfolio to improve rates risk