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Comment - Is BaFin's argument against capital cuts for green activities, sustainable?
15 May 2024Mark Branson told the media this week: "No compromises when it comes to calibrating our regulations"
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Chart of the Week - 'Build it and they will come' - German insurers and Spezialfonds
18 August 2023Since 2009 German institutions made 3.9% in their Spezialfonds - and expanded allocations by 167%
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German life firm sticks with 'qualifying' infrastructure in 2022
02 May 2023Alte Leipziger Leben ran class through stress-tests, too
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Alte Leipziger welcomes ZZR bill vanishing in 2022
22 March 2023Life unit's investment result plunges 42% as sales pressure for interest reserve vanishes
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Alte Leipziger Leben reveals investment fees in 2021
30 March 2022Bought infrastructure funds while selling fixed income for ZZR, in 2021
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Chart of the Week: Insuring in World War II
18 March 2022David Walker listens to the echoes of History
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Debeka plans sub-80% classic fixed income exposure and harder ESG engagement
10 March 2022GDV reveals German insurers have €11bn invested in solar/wind renewables
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Insurers warm to public disclosure on climate change risks
11 August 2021SFCRs reveal much about European insurers' financial health and, since 2020, also a lot about their preparations to tackle climate change risk, as David Walker finds
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Insurers are 'predestined' to finance and underwrite low-carbon future, Joerg Asmussen says
29 June 2021Allianz alone lists over 100 in-scope 'wind park' or 'renewable energy' structures in SFCR
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EM infrastructure debt is good - but reg's nuts and bolts need more work
19 May 2021Insurers can't get enough of infrastructure, for both duration and yield. But make it tradeable, standardise its terms and improve creditor rights, and the purse strings would really come loose, as David Walker finds out.
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