News

• Capital strength drives high Fitch ratings for Asian life insurers

  21 March 2022

  The rating agency said the insurers assessed benefit from sustainable profitability

• Pool Re to offer cheaper premiums and unlimited guarantee extended

  21 March 2022

  The scheme's members and board have backed the Treasury's five-year strategic review

• UK resolute on April deadline for IFRS 17, despite annuity problems

  18 March 2022

  No appetite for carve out, or delayed endorsement, officials say

• US Senator joins calls for greater scrutiny of PE-owned insurers

  18 March 2022

  Sherrod Brown expresses concern over riskier, unregulated PE involvement in insurance

• Activist investor pushes Verisk to ditch non-insurance businesses

  18 March 2022

  D.E. Shaw calls for changes amid "long-term underperformance" of share price

• Allstate aggressively raising auto rates as inflation bites

  18 March 2022

  Higher car prices and social inflation hit combined ratio

• Environmentalists praise Swiss Re's oil and gas policy but find "significant gap"

  17 March 2022

  Insurers asked to do more to support renewable energies

• Actuaries encouraged to get to grips with climate risk

  17 March 2022

  The International Actuarial Association reviews the implications of the IPCC climate report

• Cyber insurers urged to focus on preventing threats

  17 March 2022

  Panellists said insurers had previously introduced proactive measures for other perils

• China's insurers covered $50bn of "ice and snow" risks in lead-up to Olympics

  17 March 2022

  CBIRC approved 30 policy clauses specifically for the Games in February