Archive

  • Rome to tax unit-linked products in bid to fund its €30bn budget

    18 October 2024

    Georgia Meloni wants Italy's insurers and banks to contribute about €3.5bn to government's next budget

  • South Korea's FSS warns of "fallout from increasing uncertainty and volatility" in financial markets

    21 June 2024

    But conglomerates grew capital adequacy as K-ICS kicked in

  • Curious and curiouser - the quirky and weird risks, that Lloyd's syndicate CIOs are backing

    15 May 2024

    Got a satellite, a nuclear reactor, a Degas, or a body part to insure? A Lloyd's syndicate will do that - and back the risk in its GA. David Walker peers inside Lloyd's cabinet of insured curiosities

  • Natixis backs oil and gas company's debt fundraise

    23 January 2024

    Serica Energy's new RCF worth $525m

  • UnipolSai unit has one-third of investments in BTPs

    24 July 2023

    And making 2.1% more on investment than life policies promise

  • Attractive returns with policy guarantees "hardly possible" now in Germany, AXA Leben says

    04 May 2023

    Life unit continues tilt toward investment and part-guaranteed products

  • Inflation to keep impacting asset strategies over next decade, says CFO at DBG Group

    28 February 2023

    It's possible to hedge against inflation - but levels are difficult to predict

  • The Big Reveal - insurers demand look-through...but reply in kind

    08 November 2022

    CIOs might require fund managers to 'show what they've got', to examine holdings and reduce various Solvency II capital charges - but increasingly transparency is working both ways, David Walker unearths

  • Axa IM wins outsourcing mandate from parent's €610m German life book deal

    15 July 2022

    Deferred annuities and endowments had average guarantee of 3.2%

  • APAC nations boost green bond efforts to satisfy insurers' demand

    11 April 2022

    APAC's insurers tell David Walker they want more green and sustainable bonds - including more of the high-quality paper from their own neck of the woods