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Resolution Life seals $1.1bn Japan life book deal with Dai-Ichi Life

Japanese life group gets over 25% of premiums from overseas

Fitch: Japanese non-life market's positive outlook

South Korean insurers given capital relief in bumpy investment markets

Paper bond losses trigger solvency re-think by regulator

Bigger does not mean better for insurers

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

LDTI to have limited ratings impact, says Fitch

Agency says it will reverse impact of the new market discount rate under LDTI rule

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

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

Sales to weaken in 2022 as pandemic lockdowns persist

Global convergence of ICS regime is unlikely, Fitch warns

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

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

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