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Comment - Insurance regulators confront crypto currencies
02 May 2024Pronouncements by watchdogs about digital tenders seem to be softening, though not warming, to the asset class
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Hong Kong regulator sets out stance on insurers' capital and crypto asset investments
02 May 2024But door perhaps left ajar, for central banks' digital currencies
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BMA regulatory reforms get thumbs up from Fitch
01 May 2024Agency says changes support insurer credit profiles, while cautioning against regulatory arbitrage
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Sterling LDI fund managers face 300bps liquidity buffer
01 May 2024Asset managers gave mixed reviews of CSSF's proposals during consultation
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Hong Kong considering future capital-factor incentives for infrastructure investments
26 April 2024Green bond discount, and rejection of time-lag for asset valuations, published by Insurance Authority today
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Chart of the Week - Hong Kong's RBC rules and their capital charges for CIOs
26 April 2024The risk-factor charges Hong Kong's CIOs will apply under RBC appeared in a long document today, for various asset classes and risk types
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PRA consulting with insurers on implementation of "sandbox" to test MA eligibility
25 April 2024No consensus yet on what sandbox would look like, BoE says
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LGIM voted against 452 company boards in 2023
25 April 2024For not meeting environmental expectations, while manager plans strengthen stewardship policy further
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UK insurers name speed of execution and regulation as hurdles to access renewables
23 April 2024Pre-greenfield development stage projects preferred for investment, AlphaReal survey finds
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Opacity and growing interconnectedness in PE space, key worry for Bank of England
22 April 2024Nathanaël Benjamin executive director of financial stability strategy and risk at BoE explained
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Comment - Lapse risk, SFCRs and getting more transparency into Italian insurers
22 April 2024Nine data cells reveal the stress that sent one prominent lifer to the wall
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Rescuers of Eurovita divulge details of IVASS' bail-out plan in SFCRs
22 April 2024Lifer faced redemption and solvency pressure before rivals took on assets, and policies
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Chart of the Week - Uniform SCR-breakdown for IM users becomes possible, for non-UK Insurers, at least...
19 April 2024A new EIOPA reporting template has made it possible to see uniform breakdown of IM and PIM users' Solvency II risk modules
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Comment: EIOPA fires its own starting gun on actually implementing Solvency II reform
18 April 2024Small yet pivotal parts of SFCRs for non-UK firms have been amended, with significantly better transparency one result
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Comparable SCR data appears for internal model users in Europe, from revised reporting requirements
18 April 2024New and amended Solvency II data templates are now being published by non-UK internal model users
- CIO Interview: managing Europe's third largest general account
- Conning CEO on Generali's acquisition and AI in asset management
- On the merry-go-round of asset classes, with Generali Group's CIO Francesco Martorana
- Private debt at the forefront of insurers' continued advance into private markets
- Non-PE backed insurers feel pressure to compete with PE-backed firms
- Aviva reveals make-up of MA investment portfolio
- Chart of the Week - Uniform SCR-breakdown for IM users becomes possible, for non-UK Insurers, at least...
- Insurers not holding managers to account on responsible investing, ShareAction finds
- Japan's CIOs have alternatives managers in their sights
- Chart of the Week - Do PE-linked Lloyd's syndicates take more investment risk?