Risk

  • PIC completes first full scheme buy-in through streamlined Mosaic service

    03 January 2025

    In £20m transaction with the GCB Pension and Life Assurance Fund

  • Trumponomics will dominate 2025, Generali Investments says

    02 January 2025

    Rising concerns about sovereign debt sustainability

  • "Proof is in the pudding" for UK government's investment incentives

    01 January 2025

    According to Aviva Investor's senior economist and strategist

  • APAC Weekly - The Year in Review, and the Year Ahead

    31 December 2024

    APAC's re/insurance industry and landscape for cover gave endless stories of change, many of prudent management, and of thoughtful industry leaders

  • Comment: Disorderly to disastrous, Australia's energy transition lurches off-course (again)

    30 December 2024

    CIOs are now faced with more coal burning, while nuclear reactors get financed and built

  • Chart of the Week - Academics urge banks to join insurers on climate change threat

    27 December 2024

    Stakeholders in the insurance industry increasingly see collaboration with other stakeholders in countries' property stock as vital, to face down climate change

  • Chinese regulator updates rules to assess riskiness of equity investment managers

    26 December 2024

    Sweeping reforms of asset-risk assessment by insurers will take effect from next July

  • European insurers shifting away from illiquids, S&P says

    25 December 2024

    Auditors' view allays agency's fears from last year, with S&P saying insurers shifting to "plain vanilla" assets

  • Reduced capital bill for shares boosts Japan insurers' solvency since March

    25 December 2024

    FSA says lower capital requirement by September benefitted capital adequacy

  • BoE caught between inflation and sluggish economy, RLAM says

    23 December 2024

    But still predicts three cuts in 2025

  • Chart of the Week: The real-world effects of the media's pessimism about climate change

    20 December 2024

    Academics find economic and financial repercussions from downbeat media covering global warming

  • APAC Weekly - 'Rebalancing risk' of homeowners and insurers, in an era of climate change

    17 December 2024

    During research into the growing problems of affordability and availability of home insurance in Australia, academics Julia Plass and Jens Zinn uncovered, and addressed, a notable asymmetry in 'who knows what' when it comes to climate-related risks.

  • Diversification of asset classes to continue in 2025, PGIM CEO says

    13 December 2024

    Idiosyncratic risk becoming greater concern to CIOs than business cycle risk

  • Charts of the Year - How 2024 looked, in twelve charts

    13 December 2024

    It was never a dull moment in 2024, including for our Chart of the Week column. This week we provide 12 new charts, which we feel summarise the 'key points' from the year just gone.

  • MS&AD adds biodiversity assessment to renewables risk assessments

    11 December 2024

    Following the "rapid expansion" of renewable energy adoption in Japan