Archive

  • Eiopa seeks insurers views on integrating sustainable risks in Solvency II

    17 January 2019

    With particular focus on climate change and collect market practices on insurance underwriting

  • German insurance trade body warns of Brexit threat to bond yields

    16 January 2019

    Brexit no surprise, but 'hard to digest' for financial markets

  • Aberdeen Standard Investments buys into Singapore Life

    16 January 2019

    Martin Gilbert calls underwriter a "next generation" life insurer

  • Geopolitical tensions top short-term risks list - WEF report

    16 January 2019

    Worsening international relations are hindering action across a growing array of serious challenges

  • World needs to plug $18trn gap in infrastructure investment

    16 January 2019

    World Economic Forum warns that ageing power plants and bridges will need replacement amid growing threat of climate change

  • Insurers condemn Brexit deal defeat

    16 January 2019

    Dismay and warnings from insurance sector after UK Brexit deal is crushed

  • Zimbabwean life insurers overexposed to equities

    15 January 2019

    Local regulator warns against the attractiveness of equities versus insurers’ obligations to pay claims

  • Barings launches high yield bond funds in Asia

    15 January 2019

    Massachusetts Mutual Life’s investment arm argues high yield bonds are a ‘proven asset class’

  • Insurers to slug it out with fire victims in Californian bankruptcy

    15 January 2019

    One in 10 US insurers hold bonds of PG&E, sunk by Camp wildfire liabilities

  • EU marketing passport and capital charge requirements misaligned, report finds

    14 January 2019

    Although the Alternative Investment Fund Managers Directive’s impact was broadly positive