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Round the World with SFCRs - Lapse risk endures in France as life clients spy 'greener grass'
20 May 2024The risk of customers leaving early remains at French lifers, despite rates softening in 2023, keeping CIOs on alert
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Chart of the Week - Japanese life CIOs, super-long bonds and shareholdings
17 May 2024Moody's and Life Insurance Association of Japan analyse trends in one key, and one more peripheral, asset class
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Moody's expects re-invigorated buying of private credit by lifers as rate-cuts loom
16 May 2024Ratings agency presented thorough analysis of drivers of demand by lifers for illiquids/private assets globally
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German general account ends 2023 agonisingly close to €2trn, BaFin finds
16 May 2024BaFin reveals "significant write-downs" on insurers' private and commercial property credit investments
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'Silent run-off' occurring in German life market, says Moody's
16 May 2024Backbook life deals denied and abandoned, have stolen the limelight recently
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A 41% jump in unit-linked lapses drives net outflows from French lifers
16 May 2024Surrender payments were double the claims payments made by French life firms last year
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Read investor stock market sentiment to navigate bumpy summer, RLAM says
15 May 2024Amidst heightened geopolitical risk
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European insurers' property exposure hit two-year low
15 May 2024But CIO involvement in green bonds markets marks multi-year high
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External inflows to PIMCO and AllianzGI already beat Allianz's full-year goals
15 May 2024PIMCO and AllianzGI now run €1.8trn of other people's money
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Curious and curiouser - the quirky and weird risks, that Lloyd's syndicate CIOs are backing
15 May 2024Got a satellite, a nuclear reactor, a Degas, or a body part to insure? A Lloyd's syndicate will do that - and back the risk in its GA. David Walker peers inside Lloyd's cabinet of insured curiosities