Archive

  • M&G Investments launches China fund

    12 September 2024

    Vehicle aimed at taking advantage of low Chinese equity valuations

  • Kindley Re reveals seeking approval to use Bermuda's SBA

    02 August 2024

    Reinsurer's ultimate owners are affiliates linked to US alts manager Davidson Kempner Capital Management

  • Frank Grund switches from supervising German insurers, to rating them

    22 May 2024

    Former BaFin insurance supervisor has joined Assekuranz committee

  • DAV's Schiller puzzled by some EC proposals in Solvency II review

    18 November 2021

    German actuaries tell David Walker of potential dissonance in different pronouncements that the EC has made about insurers' capital, including for 'green' investments, in its reform proposals for Solvency II

  • COMMENT: The rumble in the Solvency II jungle

    14 May 2021

    BaFin and the European Commission go 'head to head', very politely

  • Allianz: Insurers don't crave extra incentives to invest sustainably

    14 May 2021

    Solvency II review should focus on keeping the industry healthy

  • No yield, too few bunds - what investment trials mean for 2020 Review

    03 April 2020

    Frank Schiller, board member of the DAV, tells David Walker in a far ranging interview his thoughts on the 2020 Solvency II review and where he believes EIOPA needs to step up its work.

  • Insurers vie with funds for control of PG&E

    27 September 2019

    The underwriters are owed $20bn from California wildfire, so aim to take over bankrupt utility

  • Outsourced insurance assets to grow 8.1% p.a. in next four years

    16 September 2015

    This despite big decline in new mandates in H1 2015, says Insurance Asset Outsourcing Exchange

  • US insurers favour alternatives in outsourcing asset management

    26 June 2014

    US insurers reduce use of third-party managers for core fixed income, increase for alternative investments