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  • US annuity writers' lapse benefits outpace premium growth, finds AM Best

    23 January 2024

    New private equity and asset manager-backed insurers will fuel market competition

  • Insurers need to improve their stress testing, urges AM Best

    02 May 2023

    The rating agency said the escalation of economic risks highlights the importance of ERM

  • Insurers' bond exposure to SVB is limited but equity fallout might hurt

    14 March 2023

    One insurer entity invested 325% of equities in the banking sector, AM Best finds

  • US life firms biding their time on fresh debt issues

    05 January 2023

    AM Best says life and annuity insurers are curbing their appetite for long-term debt

  • Covid-19 drives debt issuance among insurers

    10 November 2020

    Total debt issued increased by 31% year-on-year