News

• IASB's Hoogervorst defends IFRS 17 as global standard, despite US exclusion

  18 February 2020

  Chair of accounting standards board says life insurer troubles could have been avoided

• Start small to assess IFRS 17 impact, say experts

  18 February 2020

  Panellists at InsuranceERM's IFRS 17 conference share lessons learned from impact assessments

• FCA readies assault on 'unfair' insurance pricing

  18 February 2020

  Add-on prices also continue to cause harm to consumers, warns the regulator

• Singapore's insurers extend coronavirus cover

  18 February 2020

  The country had 77 cases confirmed by yesterday, and 53 in hospital

• Commercial insurance price rises in Q4 2019 best for eight years

  18 February 2020

  Marsh finds prices rose 11% overall, globally

• Run-off and insurtech to drive US insurance M&A this year

  17 February 2020

  M&A volumes up 10% in 2019, according to Clyde & Co report

• IASB unlikely to remove IFRS 17 annual cohorts for mutualised contracts

  17 February 2020

  Unable to draw 'bright lines' between those within scope of exemption and those outside of it

• Perils publishes "reinsurance relevant" Australia bushfire loss estimate

  17 February 2020

  The 2019/20 Australia bushfire season is regarded as one of the worst on record

• QBE profits up 41% despite US crop underwriting losses

  17 February 2020

  Australian group achieved 6.3% premium rate increases in 2019

• China Life eyeing Hong Kong listing with key China assets

  17 February 2020

  Beijing group's foreign subsidiaries step up support for coronavirus patients