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  • Comment: What about the 'how' of net zero?

    18 August 2021

    As insurers pledge allegiance to the net-zero kingdom, for all their willingness and honesty, the 'how' of reaching carbon neutrality remains a mystery, Vincent Huck writes.

  • Asia's pathway to net-zero

    09 August 2021

    Practitioners in Asia's insurance landscape see change on net zero being led by larger underwriters and spurred by the Paris Agreement, COVID-19, their governments' own climate ambitions, and global warming's physical and transition threats. David Walker reports

  • Moody's calls freezing out coal "best practice" for China's insurance CIOs

    01 July 2021

    Some green power investments will enjoy implicit or explicit government support

  • Taiwan's FSC proposes increasing foreign currency policy limit

    10 March 2021

    Move would be credit positive for life insurers, Moody's says

  • Taiwan tightens capital requirements, China loosens financial holdings rules

    06 August 2019

    Asian regulatory update

  • Investments put Chinese life insurers at risk of credit downgrades

    13 February 2017

    Allocations to higher yielding assets almost doubled since the end of 2013