Taiwan’s biggest insurers posted a total loss of almost NT$19 billion ($620 million) in April due to currency volatility after US President Donald Trump warned of a wave of global trade tariffs.

Gyrations in the Taiwanese dollar have reduced appetite for trading its derivatives in offshore markets, making it costlier for Taiwan's insurers to hedge their massive dollar assets. The weekly ...

Fitch estimates the insurers have sufficient capital buffers to withstand a 10% rise in the Taiwan dollar against the U.S. dollar from the start of 2025. Currently, the local currency is up about ...

Separately, Taiwan's financial supervisory commission has reportedly held meetings with some of the island's largest insurers to assess the risks a weaker greenback poses to their U.S. bond holdings.

The Best’s Commentary, “Taiwan Dollar Rallies, Life Insurers More Exposed to Foreign Exchange Risk,” notes that the local currency surged by a combined 8% against the U.S. dollar over a two ...

Setser stressed in his 2019 and early 2025 studies, Taiwan’s holdings of US dollar-denominated assets were the result of life insurers acting as “ the primary intermediator for Taiwan’s ...

In this case, Taiwan life insurers over the years have put their assets into U.S.-dollar-denominated bonds - which was and even is not a terrible strategy - but they have done so without hedging ...

An unprecedented two-day surge in Taiwan's currency is the latest leg of a scramble out of the U.S. dollar and signal of disquiet in markets as U.S. President Donald Trump's trade war rattles ...

The U.S. dollar extended declines against its Taiwan counterpart during Yang's held the presser, dropping 5.8% to reach the lowest since 2022, according to FactSet data.

SINGAPORE/TAIPEI (Reuters) -An unprecedented two-day surge in Taiwan's currency is the latest leg of a scramble out of the U.S. dollar and signal of disquiet in markets as U.S. President Donald ...