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  • Q2 2024 dominated by three themes, LV= CIO says

    20 August 2024

    "In almost seamless continuation from Q1," Adam Ruddle notes

  • Strategic stake sell-downs "positive" for credit profile of Japan's major non-lifers

    30 July 2024

    S&P Global Ratings expects the proceeds to be major profit driver for sellers this year

  • APAC weekly - The mixed prognosis for APAC insurers, private credit and outsourcing

    09 July 2024

    It seems patience will be a virtue, for asset managers wanting private credit mandates from APAC insurers

  • S&P affirms "stable" outlook for Baloise

    12 June 2024

    After applying revised criteria

  • Solvency II reform to give European insurers unexpected capital relief boost, S&P says

    11 June 2024

    Amounting to €80bn of total capital relief, or 25 ppts

  • S&P welcomes increased scrutiny of funded reinsurance from PRA and BMA

    06 June 2024

    Warning recapture of ceded exposures could push some BPA writers into negative solvency ratios

  • Solvency UK's MA reform "not likely a game changer", S&P says

    07 May 2024

    Insurers unlikely to take inclusion of highly predictable cash flows to the extreme

  • Comment - Insurance regulators confront crypto currencies

    02 May 2024

    Pronouncements by watchdogs about digital tenders seem to be softening, though not warming, to the asset class

  • Insurers' investments face risks in case of Israel-Iran conflict escalation, S&P says

    17 April 2024

    Agency believes foreign insurers' direct exposure to Israel via insurance and reinsurance to be "relatively immaterial"

  • Japan's CIOs have alternatives managers in their sights

    17 April 2024

    The Bank of Japan may have stolen the limelight last month, but insurance CIOs made headlines as well, with eye-catching allocations to non-mainstream assets and emerging managers