Archive

  • 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

  • Reinsurers prepared for interest rate cuts, ratings agencies say

    10 September 2024

    Sector outlook positive

  • 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