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The silver lining to any challenge is the opportunity it brings, and, in Asia, reinsurers may be on the cusp of unlocking significant potential, says Fitch's Jessica Pratiwi and Siew Wai Wan...
Instrument features and local regulatory frameworks are key to understanding the hybrid instruments issued by insurers in the Asia-Pacific. Unlike regulations for the banking industry, where regulators have universally adopted the Basel framework, rules for the insurance industry are fragmented...
Moroccan insurers are likely to gradually reduce their equity exposure and hold more government bonds in their investment portfolios when the country's new risk-based solvency regime comes into effect...
China's new regulations on asset-liability management will be positive for the insurance industry and help protect insurers from risks associated with asset-liability mismatches, Fitch Ratings says. Insurers are likely to shift towards selling protection...
French mutual insurance companies will continue to lose market share as rising regulatory costs threaten their ability to compete with traditional insurers and bancassurers, Fitch Ratings says. Many mutual insurers are relatively small and therefore face a disproportionately...
IFRS 17, the new international accounting standard for insurance contracts from 2021, could temporarily increase the cost of capital for European insurers while investors familiarise themselves with the new standard, Fitch Ratings says...
Harish Gohil, Fitch's managing director, EMEA insurance, discusses the framework’s impact and shares his expectations regarding Tier 1 issuance with Bank+Insurance Hybrid Capital...
Fitch insurance analysts David Prowse and Sam Mageed discuss how Solvency II requirements to protect policyholders could create new risks in The Actuary magazine...
Insurers’ recent Solvency II disclosures; How to compare solvency ratios between companies; Expected changes to Solvency II; Use of Solvency II in ratings...
