Archive

• Genworth downgraded after $478m impairment charge

  12 February 2015

  Further troubles with long-term care business

• QE to accelerate shift into illiquid assets

  23 January 2015

  Demand for non-euro assets is another option for hard-pressed insurers, analysts say

• AM Best maintains negative reinsurance outlook

  06 January 2015

  Highlights pressure on investment yield

• A fragile recovery?

  23 December 2014

  Genworth's announcement of a $600m charge related to its long-term care book has once again drawn attention to the sustainability of this market. Yet a closer look reveals a revised product which offers enticing possibilities for insurers, as Marcus Alcock discovers

• Moody's downgrades SNS Reaal on weakening capitalisation

  10 December 2014

  Credit rating of insurance units cut to Baa3, one notch above junk

• Dutch insurers could take €900m charge on mortgage revaluation

  27 November 2014

  Moody's warns about negative impact on solvency ratios of life insurers

• Moody's: Leverage ratios at lowest level since the crisis

  13 November 2014

  Insurers borrow less as declining earnings make debt servicing onerous

• Moody's downgrades Old Mutual Life Assurance rating

  12 November 2014

  Follows weakening of South African government creditworthiness

• Guaranteed-rate cut will hurt German insurers

  22 October 2014

  Moody's predicts short-term fall in sales levels

• Reaching the capital summit

  11 September 2014

  On the eve of this year's Monte Carlo Rendez Vous, Marcus Alcock dips his finger into the reinsurance market waters and assesses the temperature with regard to capital, catastrophes and pricing