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  • Round the World with SFCRs - Lapse risk endures in France as life clients spy 'greener grass'

    20 May 2024

    The risk of customers leaving early remains at French lifers, despite rates softening in 2023, keeping CIOs on alert

  • Going off-piste - how French CIOs are embracing alternatives

    10 January 2023

    As French insurers venture 'off-piste' in their general accounts, David Walker examines if the 'black runs' of alternative asset classes will be simply exciting - or could break a leg or two

  • Largest 50 EEA insurance investors in bonds held €2.2trn in 2018

    02 January 2020

    French insurers favour govvies while UK insurers focus on corporates