Risk

  • St James's Place surrenders ticked up in 2024, but FuM hit record high

    03 February 2025

    Wealth manager cut alternatives, grew North American shareholdings, last year

  • Chart of the Week - IVASS spells out the lay of the land in lifers' GAs, as lapse risk came to Italy

    31 January 2025

    Researchers at the regulator analysed portfolio positioning and likely gains/losses to meet surrenders, in 2023

  • Fed passes (first) Trump 2.0 independence test

    30 January 2025

    As economists predict "frosty" relations with White House

  • Lapse rates generally decreased among life insurers with better solvency in 2023

    30 January 2025

    Insurance Risk Data found this trend, with a few exceptions, using solvency data

  • WR Berkley posts record $1.3bn annual net investment income

    28 January 2025

    CFO Richard Baio flags better to come as reinvestment rate tops book yield

  • Italians regard life policies as investment products more than for demographic risk

    27 January 2025

    IVASS published research on reasons behind policy lapses in 2023

  • Fed to hold rates and ECB to cut next week, AllianzGI says

    24 January 2025

    And favours curve steepeners in both the US and Germany

  • Chart of the Week: Trump 2.0 - will he? Won't he?

    24 January 2025

    To paraphrase Robert Frost, Trump has promises to keep and miles to go before he sleeps

  • UK insurers will struggle to meet government's investment hopes for UK PLC, CreditSights says

    23 January 2025

    In addition to risk of becoming a proxy for investors to short UK sovereigns

  • AXA IM Alts' real estate debt platform raises €4bn and deploys €3bn

    23 January 2025

    Over 12-month period

  • Private credit, insurance now make up over half Blackstone, Apollo, KKR and Carlyle portfolio, says Moody's

    22 January 2025

    A decade ago, these classes were just one-third of those alternative managers' businesses

  • Apcia calls for cat bond issue, to "recapitalise and stabilise" FAIR Plan

    22 January 2025

    California's lawmakers introduced legislation on 9 January to let FAIR Plan use bond issue proceeds

  • Lloyd's London Bridge investment platform reaches $1.92bn deployed

    21 January 2025

    With $2.55bn committed from institutional investors

  • APAC Weekly - APAC's public natcat reinsurers watch California (tie itself in knots)

    21 January 2025

    State's lawmakers may have shot their state in the foot with well-meaning rules to shore up insurance

  • Markets may have over-estimated Trump growth and inflation impact, RLAM says

    20 January 2025

    As firm braces for bond market volatility in 2025