Sarfraz Thind

• US faces more banking problems as Europe stabilises, Allianz says

  24 March 2023

  Insurer assets safe against bank problems but face volatility challenges

• Lloyd's has £8.2bn exposure to banking sector

  23 March 2023

  Investments lose £3.1bn in 2022 on higher rates

• More banks will break, LGIM CIO says

  23 March 2023

  Investors have welcomed a false dawn for markets in 2023

• Partner Re reported $1.8bn losses on fixed income last year

  22 March 2023

  Mostly paper losses as higher rates and wider credit spreads hurt

• Insurers caught up in the Swiss bad apple

  22 March 2023

  The bad news seeping out of the US in the wake of SVB was magnified this month by the fall of Credit Suisse. The damage to insurers' portfolios to this once august banking institution is for now not too bad. Could there be worse to come? Sarfraz Thind reports

  

• The return to the promised land

  20 March 2023

  After a decade of eking out pitiful returns on their traditional fixed income assets insurers are finally seeing the return of higher interest rates. Will this herald a shift out of risky assets? A recent publication by the NAIC outlines the possibilities. Sarfraz Thind reports

  

• US insurers held $7bn in Credit Suisse bonds at end 2021

  17 March 2023

  A number of insurers have small size holdings in troubled bank

• BlackRock's CEO praises the power of capitalism over woke investing

  16 March 2023

  "We do not divest from sectors," Larry Fink says

• Singlife to use BlackRock's Aladdin and Citi for asset management services

  14 March 2023

  For front-to-back office custody and portfolio management

• US Insurers' SVB exposures are limited...in most cases

  13 March 2023

  One insurer entity has invested "325% of equities" in banks, AM Best finds