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  • Fitch puts Suncorp on negative rating watch as capital set to fall

    22 July 2022
  • China's insurers suffer expected fall in solvency as C-Ross Phase II takes effect

    12 July 2022

    CBIRC says ratios "remain within a reasonable range"

  • R.I.P. traditional life insurance

    11 July 2022

    Low interest rates killed off European life insurance products that offered policyholders guaranteed annual returns. Even now as rates rise, David Walker finds practitioners are ready to bury the concept

  • Insurers likely to face growing regulatory and capital developments

    08 July 2022

    Fitch points to tighter standards for systemic insurers and climate risk as high priority areas

  • Thai Life's IPO boosts capital position

    01 July 2022
  • German insurers prove resilient to natcat risk

    27 June 2022
  • Resolution Life seals $1.1bn Japan life book deal with Dai-Ichi Life

    22 June 2022

    Japanese life group gets over 25% of premiums from overseas

  • Fitch: Japanese non-life market's positive outlook

    13 June 2022
  • South Korean insurers given capital relief in bumpy investment markets

    13 June 2022

    Paper bond losses trigger solvency re-think by regulator

  • Bigger does not mean better for insurers

    02 June 2022

    Expanding an insurance business in good times typically meant growing profits. In today's tougher economic environment, Europe's largest insurers are being much more prudent about spending capital, and are only considering very careful expansion, as David Walker writes