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  • 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 - Whether it's CIOs, CEOs, or CUOs, the imperative these days seems to be "diversify!"

    18 February 2025

    From investments in China to underwriting risks in Japan, APAC's insurers are spreading their risks - with one notable exception

  • Tokio Marine AM holds out hope for cure to cancer

    17 January 2025

    Fund invests in research via underlying Candriam product

  • European insurers shifting away from illiquids, S&P says

    25 December 2024

    Auditors' view allays agency's fears from last year, with S&P saying insurers shifting to "plain vanilla" assets

  • Moody's downgrade of France, the more things change the more they stay the same

    18 December 2024

    Insurers and their asset managers react to the ramifications of the rating change going forward

  • Nippon Life can manage risks of funded re after Resolution M&A, S&P Global Ratings predicts

    16 December 2024

    But ratings agency expects parties to deal to watch regulatory developments closely

  • Geopolitical risks could eat up 95% of European insurers' capital surplus, S&P says

    29 November 2024

    Ratings agency found equity risk far outweighed bond risk in stress test scenario, despite lower exposures

  • APAC Weekly - Japan's insurers seek fresh business (and investments) beyond the horizon

    05 November 2024

    A trend gaining quite some traction is overseas expansion, among both general and life insurers as buyers, from Japan, involving a fairly widely-spread mix of targets

  • APAC Weekly - Climate change will demand steely nerves, and broad shoulders, of region's CIOs

    29 October 2024

    Property insurers may have to rely on GAs to do heavy lifting, if CUOs 'drop the ball'

  • APAC Weekly - Forking paths for insurers in APAC's powerhouses: China and Hong Kong

    01 October 2024

    S&P Global Ratings sees a resurgent Hong Kong, but a struggling Mainland China