[摘要]随着我国保险市场快速发展和对外开放的不断扩大,保险外汇资产的规模也在迅速扩大,而政策的放宽为保险外汇资金的运用拓展了新的渠道;如何充分有效地运用保险外汇资金,并利用境外投资市场分散风险、提高收益成为各界关注的焦点问题之一。保险资金境外投资风险管理的对策有:审慎考虑政治风险,合理规避市场风险;保险资金境外投资,除了考虑证券本身的报酬率外,尤其应注意汇率的变动,通过合理手段,合理管理汇率风险,以使风险分散并达到最小化;保险资金投资境外资本市场应首先考虑选择以固定收益证券为核心的资产配置策略;对其它风险的防范也将有助于提高保险资金境外投资的收益。 [关键词]保险资金;境外投资;投资风险;风险防范 [中图分类号] F84032 [文献标识码] A [文章编号]1004-3306(2006)01-0063-03 Abstract: Along with the rapid development of China’s insurance market and widening of its scope of openup, the size of foreigncurrency funds of insurers is increasing rapidly too. At the same time, new investment channels for insurance foreigncurrency funds are also made available. How to make effective use of the foreigncurrency fund and use overseas capital market to spread risks while improving investment yields have become a focal issue. The measures to guard against investment risks are as follows: prudent consideration of political risks, avoidance of market risks, managing and minimizing exchange rate risk by closely following exchange rate movement while considering investment return, allocating assets mainly to fixedincome securities, and guarding against other types of investment risks in order to improve investment yields of foreigncurrency funds in overseas capital market. Key words:insurance funds; overseas investment; investment risks; risk prevention