Regulation

  • BoE calls for increased transparency around PE-backed (re)insurers' exposures

    03 December 2024

    Warns of systemic risks at the intersection of the PE and life insurance sectors if vulnerabilities not addressed

  • M&G Investments to adopt 'Sustainability Impact' label for fund

    02 December 2024

    M&G Positive Impact Fund set to adopt SDR label in early 2025

  • European insurers' ratings safe from EIOPA fossil surcharges, Fitch says

    21 November 2024

    Agency predicts proposed increase in capital requirements would affect firms' Solvency II ratios by less than 100bps

  • Complacency is key risk to watch for, Swiss Re's Haegeli warns

    19 November 2024

    Highlighting that recent election results in Europe and US have not dampened the attractiveness of sustainable infrastructure for insurers' investments

  • Taiwan's insurance regulator proposes amending rules for discretionary outsourcing

    18 November 2024

    Changes being consulted on would dovetail with FSC's goal of promoting asset management

  • Chart of the Week - Japan's largest groups reveal GA changes after strategic equity sales

    15 November 2024

    All Japan's large non-life insurers are eliminating their long-term cross-holdings in other companies

  • German lifers' ratings unaffected by TMTP recalculations, Fitch says

    08 November 2024

    But warns declining bond yields could put some life insurers' capital under pressure again

  • EIOPA recommends additional capital requirements for insurers' fossil fuel assets

    07 November 2024

    As part of its report on the prudential treatment of sustainability risks within Solvency II

  • Entries open for Insurance Asset Risk Awards 2025

    05 November 2024

    Categories designed to highlight sector's range of talent

  • No unintended consequences in hedging programme in Bermuda, Prismic's CEO says

    05 November 2024

    As regulatory and accounting frameworks are aligned

  • Singapore to pilot-test new capital charges for sustainable infrastructure

    05 November 2024

    MAS chairman says pilot test will aid "greater allocation" to such assets

  • Real economy and investors' emissions progress diverging, NZAOA says

    31 October 2024

    L&G's Wendy Walford tells Insurance Asset Risk "radical changes" are needed from policymakers and warns of "systemic risk" to asset owners in the absence of a smooth transition

  • Phoenix Group welcomes budget support for net-zero transition

    30 October 2024

    Government spending includes provision of £ 3.9bn in 2025-26 for the first carbon capture and storage clusters in the UK

  • Man Group notes potential benefits for Hong Kong CIOs considering infrastructure

    30 October 2024

    Man Group's Max Davies awaiting details on criteria, geography and ESG facets of any capital benefits from IA

  • EIOPA opens consultation on regulation for insurers' crypto holdings

    25 October 2024

    Pledges to revisit rules as market develops