Sarfraz Thind

Articles by 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