Archive

  • Chart of the Week - China Life AM calls for more 'patient capital' in private asset- and equities markets

    21 March 2025

    Affiliate praises various facets of foreign investment markets, and key players in them, from Warren Buffett to KKR

  • DEI is all about valuing staff, and driving earnings at APAC insurers

    14 March 2025

    DEI policies offer more than a feel-good factor for Asia's underwriters. They're profit-drivers

  • What China's largest life insurer really thinks about Warren Buffett

    13 March 2025

    Insurance industry is "ammunition depot for Berkshire's large-scale investment", says CLAM

  • Current banking crisis caused by an ALM mismatch--but not for insurers

    13 April 2023

    Insurers like AIG have been oversold, according to Oakmark Global

  • Comment: What's in a name? How investors are a 'proxy-SCR' for insurers' reputation risk

    27 March 2023

    Reputations contain much value quickly lost, especially in the financial sector reliant on trust

  • The low rate crunch

    28 June 2021

    You can't get away from low rates if you are an insurer. But how bad is the low rate environment for the industry? Well the devil's in the detail as Sarfraz Thind finds out.

  • Fixed income investors face a bleak future, Buffett warns

    01 March 2021

    Insurers should not try to "juice pathetic returns" via risky loans, says investing guru

  • News round-up - 22 February 2021

    22 February 2021

    M&G; ASR; Axa IM; Barings; Berkshire Hathaway; Climate Action 100; Aviva Investors

  • Warren Buffett showed preference for telecommunication stocks in Q4 2020

    17 February 2021

  • Warren Buffett denounces P&C insurer investment strategies

    24 February 2020

    Most participate in "dangerous games" they cannot afford to play