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  • Foreign-owned and larger firms best placed for early HK RBC adoption

    10 January 2022

    Regulator has invited applications to begin RBC early

  • Investors to benefit as Asia ILS market comes to life

    10 January 2022

    Investing in insurance-linked securities (ILS) was once about natural catastrophe risk, but in Asia, practitioners expect far greater diversity in life/non-life risks being packaged, with help from insurers and regulators alike, they tell David Walker

  • Varma appoints head of private investments

    07 January 2022

    After 25 years in the role Mikko Koivusalo will be succeeded by Markus Aho

  • Alternative fixed income for insurance investors

    In recent years alternative fixed income assets such as loans, infrastructure financing and private debt have become increasingly popular with professional investors.

  • Chart of the week - EM funding shortfalls for required climate investments, 2016-2030

    07 January 2022

    Emerging markets are going to need insurers, and badly, to meet their climate investment requirements

  • The UK's SII reform could free up £20bn of investments for PIC

    06 January 2022

    The insurer says it gives up as much as it invests because of current MA constraints

  • M&G Real Estate invests £69m in senior living sector

    06 January 2022

    First investment in sector

  • US insurers will not benefit from inflation uptick this time round

    06 January 2022

    Weaker inflation-rate correlation means no help for industry from rising inflation marks

  • C-ROSS Phase II will see declines in Chinese solvency ratios

    06 January 2022

    But rating agencies say regime will improve the quality of capital and risk measurement

  • Hong Kong regulator introduces hybrid product to close HK$6.9trn 'mortality gap'

    06 January 2022

    Protection-linked plans hoped to serve customers and lifers alike