Archive

  • Prudential Financial to acquire health and life insurtech for $2.35bn

    05 September 2019

    Assurance IQ will lower customer acquisition costs while giving high levels of service, insurer says

  • HSBC Bank UK offloads £7bn of longevity risk to Prudential Financial

    06 August 2019

    Deal marks the second largest longevity swap in UK

  • Geneva Association adds Chinese execs to board

    14 June 2019

    Four new members are all prominent insurance leaders

  • International capital standards: the US's chorus of disapproval

    16 May 2019

    Development of the global insurance capital standard (ICS) has always been controversial. But the level of ire expressed by the US government, regulators and insurers at this week's NAIC conference was unprecedented. Sarfraz Thind reports

  • Prudential Financial's life and investment business drops in Q4

    07 February 2019

    Operating income in asset management arm falls 20%

  • More insurers join Bloomberg gender equality index

    17 January 2019

    From 2019, there are now 18 insurers overall featured in the gender equality index

  • Candace Woods: engineering financial wellness

    06 November 2018

    Prudential Financial's chief actuary talks to Christopher Cundy about her role in improving diversity, reforming its actuarial team and the regulatory challenges facing the insurer.

  • US Sifi designations: not exactly dead

    30 October 2018

    The Federal Reserve's work on large insurer regulation appeared to receive a final nail in the coffin when Prudential's Sifi designation was removed this month. Insurers have rejoiced, but systemic risk regulation has not been buried entirely. Sarfraz Thind reports

  • Prudential Financial seals $3.2bn longevity reinsurance deals

    18 October 2018

    US insurer says deals signal healthy growth in UK pension risk transfer market

  • Prudential Financial loses Sifi status

    17 October 2018

    Insurer does not pose threat to financial stability, say US regulators