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Moody's predicts greater uptake of funded re among Japan's mutuals

The rating agency says peer comparisons of solvency, not low levels of cover, driving interest

Moody's upgrades outlook for Japanese life and non-life sectors

The rating agency expects more funded re to benefit the life sector's capital

Moody's dangles ratings carrot for Nippon Life to diversify further

Regulatory capital reforms bolster Uzbek non-life sector, but compliance pressures rise

Local regulator revoked nine insurers' licences since September 2023

RVS 2025: An uneasy stability

Reinsurers descend on Monte Carlo with strong balance sheets, but softening pricing, record catastrophe losses and intensifying casualty risks are testing the sector's resilience. Joshua Geer reports

Moody's launches consultation on methodology for rating ILS

Comes as cat bond issuance surges and California wildfires herald more defaults

Viridium sale likely to spark resurgence in European life consolidation

Backing from major insurers and asset managers to assuage regulatory concerns

LA wildfires set to be record insured loss event, but re/insurers can absorb impact

Some estimates suggest insured losses are at $20bn already

Asia-Pacific P&C firms take less underwriting risk than US rivals

Moody's Ratings analyses exposures at Chinese, Japanese and Taiwanese insurers

Japan's general insurers call for increase in special natcat reserving rate

Significant natural catastrophes have sent the sector's balance for "extraordinary" incidents into the red, GIAJ says