CBIRC issues revised rules on entrusted investment of insurance funds

These measures are part of the CBIRC’s long, slow slog to overhaul its regulatory regime, improve oversight and risk management, and for the insurance sector specifically, take measures that will help companies increase the return on the assets they invest and consequently the return they offer policyholders. As the government increasingly looks to the industry as a vehicle to invest the savings of individuals for the long-term, it has been gradually relaxing controls on the types of assets insurers can invest in and opening investment to specialized asset managers…