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NFRA to cut insurers’ risk-weighted capital requirements to boost stock market investment

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The financial regulator (NFRA) plans to cut insurance companies’ capital requirements so they can ramp up stock investments.
On Wednesday, Li Yunze, the head of China’s financial regulator (NFRA), said the risk weightings of insurance companies’ stock holdings will be cut by 10%.

He didn’t say when...



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