Archive

  • A 'Happy Future' for Viridium and its new owners including BlackRock?

    20 March 2025

    Cinven is selling out of German life consolidator to insurers and manager, in €3.5bn deal

  • Private credit, insurance now make up over half Blackstone, Apollo, KKR and Carlyle portfolio, says Moody's

    22 January 2025

    A decade ago, these classes were just one-third of those alternative managers' businesses

  • The thorny regulatory issue of PE and Bermudian re/insurers

    23 September 2024

    The BMA has its sights set on parent-originated illiquid investments in the GAs of Bermuda's underwriters

  • Chart of the Week - Are PE owners stripping capital out of Bermudian re/insurers they own?

    20 September 2024

    Any insurance regulator's concern is an owner who takes more than it gives, in capital terms

  • InEvo Re appoints chief investment officer

    08 August 2024

    Athora's head of financial risk, Luke Youlden, takes up the role

  • Swiss Re names next CFO as John Dacey announces retirement

    31 July 2024

    Athora's CFO is to join Swiss Re next year, as Dacey's successor

  • A Lasting legacy - How Medvida is still helping Spanish lifers shed unwanted backbooks

    26 June 2024

    Life consolidation and backbook deals may have hit hurdles in Germany, but in Spain Antonio Trueba, CEO of consolidator Medvida Partners paints a different picture

  • Round the World with SFCRs - German insurers welcome interest rates tailwinds, but explore alts 'just in case'

    07 June 2024

    Fixed income and equities performance in 2023 wiped out write-downs many German insurers made in 2022

  • AXA Leben investment income slumps 43% after transfer to AGER Leben

    03 June 2024

    AXA Leben pinpoints Deutsche Beamten Versicherung Leben as backbook spun off

  • Round the World with SFCRs - Italy's lapse risk shows no sign of surrendering

    03 June 2024

    A lot of Italians holding life policies made for the exit, early, in 2022, and the pressure on lifers seemed not to ease much in 2023