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VPV promotes Allianz Leben alumnus to its supervisory board
02 April 2024Olaf Schmitz has been responsible for asset management, actuarial and products at VPV's life insurer
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Allianz Leben investment result almost halves as ZZR demand drops
12 April 2023Allianz's other German units hold investment outcome steadier in 2021/2022
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Oliver Bäte offers comfort, reassurance and hope
21 February 2023With 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
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Allianz cuts average life promise by one-third since 2011
11 July 2022Moody's raised outlook for group and various undertakings
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Allianz sees promise, in a life of less promises
22 April 2022Once, 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
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Comment - Allianz's life-milestone takes a capital-millstone from Bäte's neck
08 March 2022Rivals may find the 'unshackling' of life and health capital burdens at Allianz unwelcome news
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Mortgages - safe as houses, or 'waiving' goodbye to repayment returns?
27 July 2020Home loans have proved popular with Europe's insurers, to the tune of €237bn invested in 2019, but that was in the good times. As many underwriters holding them are forced to delay collecting repayments amid COVID-19, some are re-running stress tests on their portfolios, David Walker finds
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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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Selling investments pushes German life firms into safe territory...just
24 August 2018More than one in every five euros of return comes from selling assets
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Generali affiliate seals five-year deal for German life unit
05 July 2018Generali Investments Europe to earn €275m from Generali Leben assets