NEAM Insights | Non-US (17)

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2025 U.S. Life Industry Investment Highlights: Strong Yields, Moderating Income Growth

Executive Summary In 2025, the U.S. life insurance industry’s net investment income continued to rise, though at a slower pace, extending the upward trend since 2023. Supported by ...

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Full Report - Managing the New World Order: P&C Investment Highlights

FINANCIAL HIGHLIGHTS Recent History and Trends Recent premium growth for the property and casualty insurance industry has been hovering at 4% as the...

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AM Best New BCAR: Impact on Life Insurers’ Portfolio Optimization?

In October 2017, AM Best released their new Best’s Capital Adequacy Ratio (BCAR) methodology that assesses the capital adequacy of the...

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Global Divergence: Messaging from Emerging Markets

For the third quarter of 2018, the S&P 500 returned 7.2%, the best quarterly return since 2013. Fueled by the strongest U.S. macro backdrop since the...

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Sovereign Bond Backed Securities: European Government Debt’s Next Venture into the Unknown?

Introduction Since 2010, stability in the euro area has been tested on several occasions as many peripheral nations have undergone periods of...

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The U.S. Muni Market: Pre-Financial Crisis to Today

In this issue of Quick Takes, we will look at how certain risk factors in the muni market have evolved over the past decade. The states were in...

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Brexit Update

The UK’s Brexit referendum was held two years ago on June 23, 2016. The UK gave formal notice of its decision to leave the European Union (EU) on...

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Single Security Initiative for Agency Mortgage-Backed Securities: “Ready or Not, Here I Come!”

A historic change will soon be coming to the mortgage-backed securities market. On June 3, 2019, the Federal Housing Finance Authority (FHFA) plans...

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Market Messaging

The second quarter of 2018 exhibited a much steadier overall rhythm than the eventful cadence evidenced earlier in the year. Volatility, while still...

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Libor Transition Update

Background In late 2014, the Federal Reserve assembled the Alternative Reference Rates Committee (ARRC) and assigned it the task of identifying a new...

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Tax Reform: Impact on Capital Adequacy Downside Risk and Asset Allocation

Recently, we explored how tax changes have influenced the attractiveness of tax-preferenced investments and the impact of accounting regimes and...

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