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  • Resolution Life investment paying off in Nippon Life's foreign expansion

    13 June 2024

    Japanese group planning more overseas M&A

  • Japanese life firms' profits improve as Covid costs recede

    20 May 2024

    Japan Post Insurance and T&D Holdings both benefitted from new laws on deemed hospitalisation

  • Johanna Köb steps down as Zurich's responsible investment head due to long Covid

    19 April 2024

    She thanked her team, boss and Zurich for their support and explained who will succeed her

  • 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

  • Cross-border sales fuel 82% leap in AIA's Hong Kong new business value

    14 March 2024

    Chief executive says momentum is sustainable

  • Storebrand's insurance business hit by higher disability and P&C claims

    07 February 2024

    Norwegian group raises prices to restore profitability

  • US government report highlights barriers to federal pandemic insurance programme

    22 December 2023

    US Government Accountability Office reviewed whether the government could make pandemic insurance available to businesses

  • Excess UK mortality persisting into 2023

    06 October 2023

    Driving factors include Covid-19 related deaths and pressure on the country's NHS

  • Gerhard Stahl: "We will all have to be Picassos in the future"

    18 July 2023

    Systemic risks such as climate change, pandemic and cyber are posing questions about the role of insurance. Talanx's former chief risk officer discusses how actuaries, governments and regulators should step up to the challenge, in this interview with David Walker

  • Viral load: how actuaries used democratised data to beat Covid-19

    13 July 2023

    The flood of public data on Covid-19 became a silver lining for actuaries amid the dark clouds of the pandemic, as David Walker reports