Archive

  • Chart of the Week - Uniform SCR-breakdown for IM users becomes possible, for non-UK Insurers, at least...

    19 April 2024

    A new EIOPA reporting template has made it possible to see uniform breakdown of IM and PIM users' Solvency II risk modules

  • VPV promotes Allianz Leben alumnus to its supervisory board

    02 April 2024

    Olaf Schmitz has been responsible for asset management, actuarial and products at VPV's life insurer

  • German backbook deals and run-offs - a €150bn asset industry since 2014

    01 February 2024

    Moody's examined 14 deals, completed, pending and scuttled

  • Nearly 2,000 European insurers have GAs smaller than in Zurich/Viridium's scuppered deal

    31 January 2024

    BaFin has stopped life backbook deal involving €21bn of assets

  • German life CIOs breath out, as the 'great ZZR unwind' begins

    19 April 2023

    In 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

  • Allianz Leben investment result almost halves as ZZR demand drops

    12 April 2023

    Allianz's other German units hold investment outcome steadier in 2021/2022

  • Oliver Bäte offers comfort, reassurance and hope

    21 February 2023

    With Structured Alpha 'behind' it, Allianz is applying the lessons learned to best effect, it told analysts at this month's full-year results presentation. David Walker reports

  • Allianz cuts average life promise by one-third since 2011

    11 July 2022

    Moody's raised outlook for group and various undertakings

  • Allianz sees promise, in a life of less promises

    22 April 2022

    Once, lifers gave CEOs headaches and ate up their capital. But now, David Walker finds, it's their CEOs hungry for more, in a 'capital-lite' world

  • Comment - Allianz's life-milestone takes a capital-millstone from Bäte's neck

    08 March 2022

    Rivals may find the 'unshackling' of life and health capital burdens at Allianz unwelcome news