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  • Sharp decline in interest rates could dampen UK bulk annuity growth

    18 April 2024

    Moody's also says competition for illiquid assets could compress yields and dilute portfolio quality

  • UAE insurers brace for swathe of claims following severe flash flooding

    18 April 2024

    Heaviest rainfall in 75 years hits the region

  • Firms must incorporate learnings from mistakes in Consumer Duty era, says FCA

    18 April 2024

    Matt Brewis said the measure for progress would be an "ever raising bar"

  • Florida still not attractive enough to cover, says Travelers

    18 April 2024

    Reforms are only a start in the nat cat prone state, insurer says

  • Life lapse volumes and comparable SCR data appear in revised reporting

    18 April 2024

    New and amended Solvency II data templates are now being published by non-UK internal model users

  • S&P: Iran-Israel conflict unlikely to erupt into full-scale Middle East war

    17 April 2024

    The rating agency says Emea insurers are not currently materially affected by the conflict, but risks remain

  • Post-pandemic landscape has escalated reserve risk, warns AM Best

    17 April 2024

    The rating agency said Covid-19 had reset both insurance and economic ecosystems

  • Liberty Mutual "nearly" completes coal exclusion underwriting goals

    17 April 2024

    The insurer fully adheres to coal policy for its investments

  • Italian life firms' SFCRs reveal rising policy lapse rates in 2023

    17 April 2024

    Solvency filings discuss methods sector used to tackle the risk

  • Chaucer reshuffles CFO and CRO roles after Richard Milner arrival

    16 April 2024

    Werner Joubert becomes CRO at the London-headquartered speciality re/insurer