News

  • Munich Re is the largest reinsurer in the world, according to IFRS

    28 August 2024

    But Swiss Re top of the non-IFRS pile as new accounting method complicates things, says AM Best

  • Growth in China and Hong Kong stalls for Prudential

    28 August 2024

    The firm said it had taken steps to reposition its business in H1

  • Ageas reports "remarkable" H1 growth in non-life business

    28 August 2024

    IFRS 17 tax issue in China dents life net operating result

  • FCA launches investigation into UK's protection insurance market

    28 August 2024

    The regulator is concerned that some products may be providing poor value

  • Canada's Jasper wildfires caused $650m in insured losses

    28 August 2024

    Wildfires join list of summer natcats pressurising country's insurance industry

  • BaFin unearths concerning early-year lapse rates in some retirement products

    28 August 2024

    German regulator delivered a warning on front-loading policy costs, given customer surrender rates

  • Direct Line admits solvency capital ratio miscalculation

    27 August 2024

    The UK insurer found the mistake while preparing its H1 2024 results

  • AI-related fraud highlighted by nearly half of insurers

    27 August 2024

    Insights from RGA's 2024 global claims survey

  • Richard Charlton joins Utmost Life and Pensions as CRO

    27 August 2024

    Replaces Feryal Nadeem who joined OneFamily earlier this month

  • Australia faces up to climate insurance affordability crisis

    26 August 2024

    Actuaries Institute finds 15% of homes now under "insurance affordability stress"