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What Insurance Risk Regulatory Frameworks now require

Insurance risk regulation has quietly changed shape. The frameworks that rating agencies and regulators apply to insurers no longer accept a simplified estimate of what a portfolio would be worth under stress. Increasingly, they expect insurers to demonstrate a genuinely recalculated value — every instrument, repriced under each prescribed condition.

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Fri 07 Aug 2026
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Nine Questions on Insurance Risk and the Move to Full Repricing

Insurance risk has changed more in the last decade than in the twenty years before it. We sat down with Tatiana Zebaze to talk about what’s driving that change, why regulators and rating agencies increasingly expect a fully recalculated portfolio rather than an estimate, and what it means for mid-market insurers today.

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Wed 05 Aug 2026
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Connect Hong Kong: How AI is enhancing hedge fund workflows 

AI is improving hedge fund workflows. At Clearwater’s Connect Hong Kong event, investment leaders shared how it’s reshaping their day-to-day work.

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Firms Don’t Look Back When Managed Services Partnerships Are Right 

Insights from Connect New York Partnerships in managed services built on trust and powered by the right technology are helping investment operation leaders navigate an increasingly complex investment and regulatory environment without adding headcount. This was the focus of a recent…

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Looking Ahead: The 2026 Insurance Investment Outsourcing Report

For more than a decade, the Insurance Investment Outsourcing Report (IIOR) has served as the industry’s standard directory of insurance-focused investment managers and consultants.

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Tue 25 Nov 2025
Transforming APAC insurers’ risk visibility

Improved risk visibility is critical as organisations increasingly see opportunities in private markets. Making full use of enhanced technology and platforms that can integrate data plays a central role as firms expand the asset classes they invest in, particularly given the regulatory pressures driving technology spending across the APAC region.

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Beyond Vibe Coding: Software Engineering with AI in Practice

This post goes beyond vibe coding and shows practical ways to work with AI coding agents to produce better-engineered software products in real projects.

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Fri 19 Dec 2025
After a tumultuous 2025, a data-driven look ahead at 2026

2025 was another year where doomsayers got it very wrong. After the new White House introduced sweeping tariffs in the spring, many pundits and economists predicted a hard landing for the economy: a melt-up in prices, due to tariffs, and a meltdown in the business environment, as companies grappled with increased costs.

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Thu 18 Dec 2025
For APAC insurers, automation is necessary for investment success

The APAC insurers we spoke to say they are burdened by manual processes and legacy technology, which are hampering effective moves up the risk curve. The vast majority (85%) of respondents of our APAC Insurance Survey expect the risk profile of their investment portfolios to rise over the next two years.

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ALM upgrades essential to success for APAC insurers

Our latest APAC Insurance Report found that only 17% of insurers in APAC say their ALM systems can “very easily” cope with diversification and new instruments.

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Vibe Check: Software Engineering with AI

Software engineering is changing fast in the age of AI, and the way we design, build, and ship software is evolving with it. This multi-part series dives into practical techniques for using AI to boost productivity, keep code quality high, and help your teams move faster—without losing control of your architecture or standards.

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Taking it outside: Why APAC insurers are turning to third-party fund managers

Our recent survey of APAC insurance asset managers – representing $2.6 trillion in AUM across Hong Kong, Singapore, and Australia – revealed that insurers are becoming far more comfortable handing a larger share of their assets to external managers. 

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Clearwater : une nouvelle identité pour refléter une couverture fonctionnelle à 360°

Newsletter France Clearwater #8 : une nouvelle identité pour refléter une couverture fonctionnelle à 360°

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Thu 27 Nov 2025

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