Archive

  • Versicherungskammer Bayern buys into property manager

    23 February 2021

    Bavarian insurer says co-operation will help fuel general account

  • Unipol reveals effect on solvency ratio sensitivity of BTP cuts

    15 February 2021

    More uncertainty ahead and no economic normal in sight, group chief executive says

  • Länsförsäkringar emphasises role of sustainability in Swedish group

    15 February 2021

    Swedish group put SEK 1.2bn into social bonds last year

  • Aegon acts to "calm" life unit's credit spread sensitivity

    11 February 2021

    Dutch group also buys up €4bn of corporate bonds, may reduce mortgages

  • German insurtech Deutsche Familien names new CFO

    21 January 2021

    Karsten Paetzmann's duties will include investing

  • Credit migration could slash 30 points from European life firm solvency

    11 January 2021

    Moody's calls downgrades "key source of risk" in coming months

  • CIOs hold on to home bias in H1 2020 storm

    07 January 2021

    Market and asset class locality revealed in proprietary analysis by Insurance Risk Data

  • Equity: Listed for Brits, unlisted for French, Swedes just love it

    30 December 2020

    Insurance Asset Risk reveals how European insurers like their equity holdings

  • UK insurers hold most CRE debt of European peers

    29 December 2020

    But individually Dutch insurers are bigger spenders in the asset class

  • Germany's ZZR remains a conundrum for insurers

    29 December 2020

    Calculating pay-ins in Germany's Zinszusatzreserve (ZZR) was overhauled in 2018 to reduce pressure on German insurers to build the reserve too quickly by selling valuable investments just to satisfy mandatory contributions. Has the reform been just a 'one-year wonder'? David Walker investigates