Risk

  • Historic correlation assumptions set to change, actuaries warned

    02 May 2024

    Function of commodities and interest rates in portfolios may be tested in new world order

  • Comment - Insurance regulators confront crypto currencies

    02 May 2024

    Pronouncements by watchdogs about digital tenders seem to be softening, though not warming, to the asset class

  • Inflation uncertainty underestimated by market, Ardea IM says

    01 May 2024

    Bond volatility structurally higher than it has been for most of the post-GFC era, Gopi Karunakaran, co-chief investment officer, tells Insurance Asset Risk

  • BMA regulatory reforms get thumbs up from Fitch

    01 May 2024

    Agency says changes support insurer credit profiles, while cautioning against regulatory arbitrage

  • French insurers emphasise liquid investing, as lapse risk keeps biting

    01 May 2024

    French insurers emphasise liquid investing, as lapse risk keeps biting

  • Sterling LDI fund managers face 300bps liquidity buffer

    01 May 2024

    Asset managers gave mixed reviews of CSSF's proposals during consultation

  • RLAM warns of new era of 'spikeflation'

    30 April 2024

    Head of multi asset says prepare for shorter, more volatile business cycles

  • Chinese life investment yields in 2023 revealed

    30 April 2024

    Fitch welcomes cooling in major firms' investment return assumptions

  • Hong Kong considering future capital-factor incentives for infrastructure investments

    26 April 2024

    Green bond discount, and rejection of time-lag for asset valuations, published by Insurance Authority today

  • Japanese lifers tell trade body they want more in return for holding equities

    25 April 2024

    Returns, dividend payout ratios and returns on equity common causes of discontent

  • Impairment issues in CRE not a rating worry for Korean insurers, Fitch says

    23 April 2024

    Revealing CRE overseas exposure of Korean insurers

  • Opacity and growing interconnectedness in PE space, key worry for Bank of England

    22 April 2024

    Nathanaël Benjamin executive director of financial stability strategy and risk at BoE explained

  • Comment - Lapse risk, SFCRs and getting more transparency into Italian insurers

    22 April 2024

    Nine data cells reveal the stress that sent one prominent lifer to the wall

  • Rescuers of Eurovita divulge details of IVASS' bail-out plan in SFCRs

    22 April 2024

    Lifer faced redemption and solvency pressure before rivals took on assets, and policies

  • Chart of the Week - Uniform SCR-breakdown for IM users becomes possible, for non-UK Insurers, at least...

    19 April 2024

    A new EIOPA reporting template has made it possible to see uniform breakdown of IM and PIM users' Solvency II risk modules