Risk

  • Just Group sticking with fixed cashflow assets in MA portfolios, SFCR says

    14 April 2025

    Solvency UK reforms have been a 24-month tailwind for group's capital overall

  • Rothesay reports "immaterial" impact on investments from Solvency UK MA reforms, so far

    14 April 2025

    UK lifer branched into French home loans in 2024

  • Pension Insurance Corporation reveals MA asset breakdown in SFCR

    14 April 2025

    Market risk continued dominating group's total SCR in 2024

  • Treasury yield spikes may reflect investors' economic downturn fears, AllianzGI says

    11 April 2025

    Yield increases "counterintuitive" alongside equity volatility

  • AllianzGI still favours yield curve steepeners amidst trade uncertainty

    11 April 2025

    Affiliate expects ECB to cut rates 25 bps at 17 April meeting

  • Chart of the Week - UK life insurers' market risk at sub-module level

    11 April 2025

    As equity and bond markets twist and turn, SFCRs reveal which gyrations matter most for UK CIOs

  • Ratings agencies warn of US tariffs' impact on European insurers' investments

    10 April 2025

    Agencies highlight sensitivity to financial market shocks amidst policy uncertainty

  • Manulife IM and Aberdeen spell out China's options after Trump's steep tariffs

    10 April 2025

    "Monetised stock market support" one possibility, says Aberdeen Investments

  • Comment - A good time for insurers to divest Japanese cross-shareholdings?

    09 April 2025

    In turbulent times, major Japanese insurers are trying to work out what price is fair, to unwind significant 'keiretsu'

  • US economy slowing but not in recession yet, Manulife IM says

    08 April 2025

    US economic data better than expected before the White House's tariff announcement

  • Chinese regulator raises insurers' equity ratio limits and VC fund ceilings

    08 April 2025

    "National strategic emerging industries" are in the NFRA's sights

  • No clear path for countries' tariff negotiations, investors and managers say

    07 April 2025

    Tariff calculation methodology means volatility is here for a while and is more about trade deficits than unfair tariffs

  • Tariff chaos could wipe out growth for year, but likely to be tempered by negotiations, Conning says

    07 April 2025

    President Trump's announcement last week could represent "peak" of uncertainty caused by the current administration

  • Dai-ichi Life to add AUD 131.4bn to assets in Australian M&A

    07 April 2025

    Japanese group plans buying stake in Challenger from MS&AD

  • Chart of the Week - Why Germany's 'silent life book run-off' could be a rainmaker for BlackRock

    04 April 2025

    Fitch estimates €100bn of German life books still up for consolidation