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US life insurers will absorb any recession this year
27 January 2023Strong capital position means investments should withstand market downturn, S&P says
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Higher rates likely to spur moves out of risk back into fixed income for US insurers
26 January 2023Insurers have piled into equities and private assets on low rates—this could change, S&P says
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Do rising rates signal a volte-face by reinsurers on illiquid assets?
12 September 2022With RVS in Monte Carlo well underway, Abbie Wood spoke to industry experts to learn how rising interest rates could push reinsurers away from the illiquid assets from which they once sought yield... but not all the experts agree.
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Bermudian re/insurers weathering market volatility
31 August 2022AEGIS, Partner Re and Arch have riskiest insurance portfolios, S&P finds
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Life stakeholders find reasons to sing and dance about back book deals
11 August 2022Those evaluating and otherwise benefitting from back book sales - including asset managers - tell David Walker they like what they see
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Generali and Unipol assessed for BTP exposure as Italy demoted
01 August 2022S&P Global Ratings has Italy's outlook to stable
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US insurer ETF use hits $45bn in 2021, 15% up from previous year
19 July 2022Insurers have doubled use of ETFs every four years since 2004, S&P says
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A eulogy to traditional life insurance
14 July 2022Dearly Beloved, we are gathered here today at the death of traditional life insurance.
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The death of life insurance
13 July 2022They were the bane of life for many CIOs, but a rich source of outsourcing for asset managers. Are traditional life policies - and their challenges for investing - now dead? David Walker investigates
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Europe's life CIOs to trim risk-taking, predicts S&P Global Ratings
04 July 2022Yields on mainstream classes now enough to satisfy some guarantees