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The UK gilts crisis: a worry, not a disaster, for insurers
30 September 2022Plunging sterling and soaring gilt yields are buffeting insurers, but longer-term impacts of the government's disastrous "mini budget" are the real concerns, as Sarfraz Thind reports
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Insurtech's growing pains
14 September 2022Insurtechs have faced a tough 12 months. What was once the land of endless opportunity has become an environment of job cuts and dried up funding. But making the journey from puberty to adulthood was never going to be easy, as Sarfraz Thind reports
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PRT market set for a blazing H2
16 August 2022The UK's pension risk transfer market (PRT) is on course for a very busy second half of the year, after relatively modest activity in H1. Solvency II reforms are also likely to impact the sector, as Ronan McCaughey explains
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Life back-book consolidators shrug off threat from rising rates
09 August 2022Rising interest rates are unlikely to stop life insurers from selling their legacy liabilities to consolidators, as many other incentives for doing deals remain. David Walker reports
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Japan steps forward with ICS-based capital framework
20 July 2022Japan is midway through development of a new capital framework that takes its lead from the Insurance Capital Standard. This should make it a beacon for international prudential rules, as the FSA's Shigeru Ariizumi explains to Sarfraz Thind
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ALM and capital management under Hong Kong's RBC
07 July 2022Richard Chan, Hong Kong chief investment officer and Asia head of ALM at Axa, discusses Hong Kong's forthcoming risk-based capital regime and how insurers will respond
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Blockchain in insurance: surviving the wreckage
24 June 2022Blockchain technology has so far failed to revolutionise the insurance business, but it has found some niches where it seems to be enduring. Paul Walsh reports
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Sarah Williams cultivates new risk strategy at Guardian Life
10 May 2022Sarah Williams found a new job and a new hobby during the pandemic. Now chief risk officer at Guardian Life - and a keen gardener - she is planning to make both flourish, as she explains to Ronan McCaughey
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Insurers happy with UK's Solvency II plans, but capital savings remain uncertain
28 April 2022The government has grabbed positive headlines with its proposals to reform Solvency II, but the industry is cautious about the how they will pan out. Cintia Cheong reports
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C-Ross Phase II: risk-based capital with social characteristics
15 April 2022The 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