Archive

  • UK climate test: some insurers likely to breach solvency ratios, says Fitch

    23 May 2022

    The Climate Biennial Exploratory Scenario results for insurers and banks are due on 24 May

  • Chinese life solvency falls in Q1 despite use of transitional rules

    20 May 2022

    Sales to weaken in 2022 as pandemic lockdowns persist

  • Global convergence of ICS regime is unlikely, Fitch warns

    05 May 2022

    The first two years of the global insurance capital standard's monitoring period have been completed

  • C-Ross Phase II: risk-based capital with social characteristics

    15 April 2022

    The overhaul of China's prudential rules has introduced adjustments that allow regulatory influence over how insurers underwrite and invest - with the objective of producing a social good, as David Walker reports

  • It's life Oliver, but not as we knew it

    08 April 2022

    European life insurers' capital consumption used to give their CEOs indigestion. But the "capital-lite" diets of Allianz and others has transformed the business, as David Walker discovers

  • Insurers yet to agree on IFRS 17 KPIs as effective date looms

    31 March 2022

    Experts share their views on the best KPIs at InsuranceERM's conference

  • European commercial insurers' profits to peak in 2023

    23 March 2022
  • Worst days over for Europe's life insurers, says Fitch

    08 March 2022

    Allianz has become self-sustaining for capital on new life and health insuring

  • UK Solvency II reforms warmly welcomed by life insurers

    22 February 2022

    The changes would include cuts to the risk margin for life insurers of 60-70%, while capital held by life insurers could be slashed by 15%. Paul Walsh and Cintia Cheong get the market's reaction

  • Reinsurers face margin and reserving risk from prolonged inflation

    12 January 2022

    Fitch Ratings says credit profiles may be negatively affected