Archive

  • 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

  • APAC CIOs to be 'interventionist' in coming year, predicts S&P Global Ratings

    13 March 2024

    Taiwanese insurers post T$40bn losses on FX hedging

  • S&P Global voices concerns at some APAC insurers' property exposures

    12 March 2024

    Exposures of some Chinese insurers raise questions, but Japan, Taiwan and South Korea cause less worry

  • Looming Chinese life guarantee reduction lowers yield pressure on lifers

    21 June 2023

    Maximum allowable promise will fall 50 basis points to 3% next fortnight

  • Asia's insurers cut FX hedging to "maintain profitability," says S&P Global

    31 March 2023

    Costs of FX protection could erode earnings, and capital of some

  • The CBIRC's legacy - a safe pair of hands for Chinese insurance regulation

    14 March 2023

    The CBIRC is reportedly being dissolved and its duties transferred. David Walker finds an industry praising the modernising, improving impetus behind its work on C-ROSS Phase II, to benefit risk management and China's society more generally

  • China industry practitioners praise CBIRC as dissolution flagged

    10 March 2023

    New set up suggests a more centralized regulatory mechanism

  • 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

  • China Life pushes outsourcing plans for "survival of the fittest" AM mandates

    29 March 2021

    Alternative fixed income and equity among life insurer's plans

  • Investment threats key to Asian life firms' futures

    08 March 2021

    S&P Global Ratings says underwriting dangers are secondary in most APAC countries