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Round the World with SFCRs - German insurers welcome interest rates tailwinds, but explore alts 'just in case'
07 June 2024Fixed income and equities performance in 2023 wiped out write-downs many German insurers made in 2022
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AXA Leben investment income slumps 43% after transfer to AGER Leben
03 June 2024AXA Leben pinpoints Deutsche Beamten Versicherung Leben as backbook spun off
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SFCRs shine light on German legacy life books, and investments, of Zurich and AXA
16 April 2024Groups have planned, with mixed success, to sell the back-books to consolidators Viridium and Athora, respectively
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German lifers reveal liquid GAs as lapse risk rises
10 May 2023BaFin last week warned insurers to be vigilant about tackling surrender rates as interest rates increase
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Attractive returns with policy guarantees "hardly possible" now in Germany, AXA Leben says
04 May 2023Life unit continues tilt toward investment and part-guaranteed products
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German life CIOs breath out, as the 'great ZZR unwind' begins
19 April 2023In past years, German lifers dispatched CIOs to raise cash to pay into their ZZRs - like it, or not. But that reversed, and sometimes heftily, as interest rates rose in 2022. David Walker reports
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Less onerous ZZR reserving relieves pressure to encash investments
02 May 2019German life insurers welcome rule change which lower their contributions to their interest rate reserve
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R&V Leben tops investment performance among German life firms
18 December 2018BaFin released figures for 2017
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Asset managers serving DB pensions have skills for life firms
02 February 2018Frankfurter-Leben Gruppe among German insurers buying up pension investment assets