Archive

  • The sun shines again on Spanish general accounts

    08 May 2023

    As fixed income yields rise, Spanish insurers' CIOs may reflect happily on their 76% weighting to fixed interest interests - and smile again, David Walker writes

  • European lifers' liquidity risk manageable as surrender rates rise

    04 May 2023

    Fitch says sources of liquid funds and good ALM will protect sector

  • Comment - Time for Europe's lifers to 'talk tough' with their governments?

    04 May 2023

    Knowlingly or not, some of Europe's governments now have sovereigns able to compete with life policy promises

  • Chart of the Week - When the MA goes 'the wrong way' for Spanish lifers

    28 April 2023

    Ideally the MA, with life liabilities backed by predictable income assets, should improve users' capital coverage. Often, that's not been so in Spain.

  • ANIA announces final closing of infrastructure fund at €516m

    24 May 2022

    With most of the main domestic insurers taking part in the funding

  • BTPs - the love affair Italian CIOs can't quite let go of...

    16 September 2021

    Italians love their domestic government bonds, and although regulators beg for diversification, CIOs are in no rush to let go. Abbie Wood reports

  • Italy's insurers rack up paper gains as debt markets recover

    21 August 2020

    Most of €62bn of uncrystallised investment gains at life firms

  • ANIA president highlights role of insurers in COVID-19 recovery

    03 July 2020

    Investment in digital and green infra a priority, Farina says

  • Italian insurance association buys rail operator

    22 April 2020

    Investment tagged as ESG friendly in the context of COVID-19 crisis

  • Moody’s issues poor outlook for Uruguayan insurers

    01 May 2019

    Earnings take hit from price competition, natcats and agricultural claims