Archive

  • Japanese earthquake reinsurer backs sustainability-linked bond

    28 June 2024

    Commitment marks second ESG bond investment by insurer this month

  • Japanese earthquake reinsurer backs transition sovereign bond

    04 March 2024

    Japan Earthquake Reinsurance joins long list of industry investors

  • Chart of the Week - Europe's insurers reveal more strategic planning details

    08 September 2023

    It's not just breakdowns of market risk SCRs that CIOs are telling the world about...

  • Chart of the Week - Love me tender? Europe's CIOs' complex relationship with currency risk

    01 September 2023

    Diversifying GAs can expose CIOs to FX risk. Not all of them simply 'hedge it out'

  • Benelux insurers' investment capital bills gyrate, in time with markets, in 2022

    18 May 2023

    Some insurers faced triple-digit hikes in interest rates SCRs as equities and spread risks dramatically gave way, David Walker reports

  • Dutch insurer says price inflation already outrunning investment returns

    14 September 2022

    Dutch group's investment returns in 2021 almost doubled expectations

  • Hiscox buys put option to protect solvency coverage

    03 September 2021

    Federale Assurances says its action with derivatives made possible by "good solvency ratio"

  • Yarden's solvency ratio undershoots 100% in 2020

    11 May 2021

    On the back of marginal widening of spreads

  • Five European bodies criticise EIOPA's approach to the SII review

    04 November 2020

    Letter by Insurance Europe, the CFO, the CRO and the Pan-Europe Insurance Forums, and the Association of mutual insurers ask for less capital burden

  • Chart: Swiss insurers' 2019 investments

    11 September 2020

    24% real estate weighting, source of concern for the regulator