China Enlists Commercial Insurers in Bid to Boost Local Biotechs July 1, 2025 By Bloomberg News China wants commercial insurance firms to invest in the development of homegrown medicines, Beijing’s latest bid to support its burgeoning...
Brookfield’s Insurer Trims Private Credit, Citing Crowded Trade June 19, 2025 By Alexandre Rajbhandari Brookfield Corp.’s insurance unit has pulled back from investments in private credit as surging demand from rival bidders pushes yields...
Asset Owners With $9.5 Trillion Call for Stopping Deforestation June 18, 2025 By Alastair Marsh A coalition of pension funds and insurance companies holding a combined $9.5 trillion of assets has called on investors to...
Taiwan Life Insurers’ $700 Billion Bet on the US Is Backfiring June 12, 2025 By Chien-Hua Wan, Cindy Wang and Betty Hou For decades, Taiwan’s life insurance companies boasted of above-average returns from their heavy investment in US bonds. That reliance is...
Japan’s Big Non-Life Insurers Plan to Sell Cross Shareholdings May 20, 2025 By Nao Sano Japan’s three major casualty insurers plan to sell a total of about ¥1.37 trillion ($9.5 billion) of cross-held shares in...
Corporate Credit Tremors in Aftershock of Tariff-Led Stock Rout April 10, 2025 By Naomi Rovnick, Harry Robertson and Sinead Cruise The tariff shock and recession fears that have sent world stocks into a tailspin over the last week are rolling...
Generali Won’t Fight Italy Government Over Natixis Deal, CEO Tells Paper April 4, 2025 By Gianluca Semeraro, Giuseppe Fonte and Valentina Za Italian insurer Generali will not put up a fight to defend a planned asset management tie-up, if Rome’s opposition stiffens...
Italy Insurance Watchdog Needs More Details of Generali-Natixis Deal, Sources Say April 2, 2025 By Giuseppe Fonte and Valentina Za Italy’s insurance regulator IVASS needs more details about internal control and governance systems as it reviews domestic leader Generali’s proposed...
Swedish Insurer Folksam Divests $160 Million Tesla Stake April 2, 2025 Sweden’s largest insurer Folksam said on Wednesday it has sold its stake in electric car maker Tesla over concerns about...
Allianz Global Investors Scraps Nuclear, Military Exclusions to Back Europe Rearmament April 1, 2025 By Iain Withers Germany’s Allianz Global Investors has dropped two exclusions blocking its sustainable funds from investing in defense, becoming one of the...