Archive

  • Ping An lends insurer's eye to Chinese ESG disclosure standards

    12 May 2022

    International standards "difficult to match" with China's market

  • 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

  • Creating C-Ross

    15 March 2022

    DWS's Ellen Yang can fairly claim unique insight into the development of China's prudential regulation. She talks to David Walker about her involvement and the impact of the Phase II rules

  • Lloyd's predicts stable solvency in China as C-Ross Phase II begins

    11 January 2022

    Practitioners expect volatile solvency levels elsewhere in China

  • CBIRC urges more cat bond issuance in Hong Kong

    30 September 2021

    Mainland insurers ceding little catastrophe risk as claims costs rise

  • MS&AD tightens coal policy

    28 June 2021

    It follows similar announcements by four Korean insurers

  • Zurich launches digital unit in major organisational revamp

    02 September 2020

    CEOs have been appointed for the North America, Latin America and Asia-Pacific regions

  • Value creation analysis finds an "enormous gap" between best and worst insurers

    14 August 2020

    BCG's analysis of value creation by insurers has found a massive gap between companies, much more so than in other industries. And the challenges posed by Covid-19 are putting extra pressure on the worst performers to respond. Christopher Cundy reports

  • Ping An establishes JV with Japanese Covid-19 vaccine developer

    28 July 2020

    The insurer said the investment will create various treatments for mainland patients

  • Re/insurers face wider scrutiny from climate activists

    18 June 2020

    Unfriend Coal becomes Insure Our Future to cover all fossil fuels