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Debeka to launch asset management arm

Unit will help invest for new products

73% of German insurers' investments are 'sustainable'

Almost half want to make more ESG allocations

Sustainable assets do not equal low-risk, warns German regulator

BaFin cautions against ESA review creating “bureaucratic monster”

PRA to review life insurers' risk taking in "complex" illiquid investments

A lack of external credit ratings and observable market prices makes it difficult to assess insurers' risk-taking in increasingly popular illiquid asset classes, according to the Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA).

BaFin issues blunt warning on infrastructure investments

Germany's insurance regulator has warned underwriters against making infrastructure investments unless they fully grasp the "high complexity and heterogeneity" of the popular asset class.

Look-through essential in SFCRs, says BaFin

German regulator also spells out rules for comparative figures in year two of pillar 3

German regulator warns on stress test practices for fund investments

German trade body calls for proportionality on look-through

GDV's plea comes as Insurance Risk Data reveals Germany's largest fund-investing insurers

BaFin reveals market risk exposure of German life insurers

Market risk makes up almost 80% of SCR for life insurers on the standard formula

Allianz takes further benefit from high value bond portfolio

Realised gains of €1.6bn to feed German interest rate reserve