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  • Climate transition will drive political risk

    21 October 2022

    No easy route to eliminate fossil fuels, says WTW panel

  • Gilts crash: a boon out of a crisis for insurers

    18 October 2022

    Another day, another UK financial market crash. But while it has gone wrong for British politics and pension funds, the current crisis may actually benefit insurers in the long run. Ronan McCaughey and Sarfraz Thind report

  • Video: National Western Life's Adam Lei on private equity's attraction to insurance

    18 October 2022

    Adam Lei, vice president, ERM, ALM and inforce management at National Western Life, discusses private equity investment in insurers

  • Video: Manulife's Halina von dem Hagen on private equity and insurance investment

    13 October 2022

    Halina von dem Hagen shares her views at the Insurance Risk & Capital Americas 2022 conference in New York

  • Ledger Investing aims to crack the casualty ILS code

    12 October 2022

    Led by ex-AIG chief risk officers, Ledger Investing is entering the relative unknown in connecting insurance-linked securities (ILS) investors with casualty risks. Paul Walsh reports

  • UK economic volatility increases insurers' liquidity and credit risk

    11 October 2022

    The Bank of England today warned of a material risk to UK financial stability

  • Invitation to free webinar on insurers outsourcing investing in Europe

    11 October 2022

    Insurance Risk Data hosts webinar on exclusive findings from forthcoming annual European insurer outsourcing research report

  • Ripples of interest rate risk hit UK annuity writers

    07 October 2022

    Equity-release mortgages have been a popular asset class for annuity writers, but soaring interest rates, fears of a property crash and regulatory uncertainty are creating questions for the market, as Christopher Cundy reports

  • Munich Re to refuse coverage for new oil and gas fields

    06 October 2022

    Joins Hannover Re and Swiss Re in halting support for fossil fuel expansion

  • Plenty of runway left for life consolidation in Europe

    04 October 2022

    The business of consolidating life insurance portfolios is looking healthy, according to participants, as inflation provides a catalyst and supervisors become more familiar with transactions. Joshua Geer reports