Sarfraz Thind

• TIAA's $2.6bn residential mortgage purchases boosted market in H1

  08 September 2023

  Overall US insurer residential mortgage volumes hit new high but at subdued growth rates

• PGIM to manage assets for Prudential Financial reinsurance venture

  08 September 2023

  Bermudian-based Prismic Life set up with an initial $10bn annuity base

• US non-life insurers well placed to ride out real estate crunch

  31 August 2023

  Fitch says industry had 23% of surplus in real estate at end of 2022

• Bayview sets up insurance asset management division

  29 August 2023

  Headed by ex-Metlife IM head of private FI Nancy Mueller Handal

• SEC passes new rules on private fund oversight

  24 August 2023

  Rules will increase fee transparency, but many earlier proposals have been diluted

• US insurer mortgage loans grew 8.6% in 2022 even as CRE market faces crunch year

  21 August 2023

  Insurers held $727bn in mortgage loans at end-2022, NAIC finds

• US bond yields not a crisis - but the risks have grown, says Swiss Re

  18 August 2023

  Yield surge requires ever more disciplined insurer balance sheet management

• NAIC revamps rules to better monitor insurer investments

  17 August 2023

  Regulator passes new structured securities factors and bond definition guidelines

• US PE-insurer growth continues

  16 August 2023

  NAIC identifies 137 companies making up 6.5% of total insurance assets

• US insurers hurt by rate rises to benefit from NAIC's IMR rule change

  15 August 2023

  NAIC expected to adopt interest rate accounting proposal tomorrow