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Rome to tax unit-linked products in bid to fund its €30bn budget
18 October 2024Georgia Meloni wants Italy's insurers and banks to contribute about €3.5bn to government's next budget
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South Korea's FSS warns of "fallout from increasing uncertainty and volatility" in financial markets
21 June 2024But conglomerates grew capital adequacy as K-ICS kicked in
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Curious and curiouser - the quirky and weird risks, that Lloyd's syndicate CIOs are backing
15 May 2024Got 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
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Natixis backs oil and gas company's debt fundraise
23 January 2024Serica Energy's new RCF worth $525m
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UnipolSai unit has one-third of investments in BTPs
24 July 2023And making 2.1% more on investment than life policies promise
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Attractive returns with policy guarantees "hardly possible" now in Germany, AXA Leben says
04 May 2023Life unit continues tilt toward investment and part-guaranteed products
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Inflation to keep impacting asset strategies over next decade, says CFO at DBG Group
28 February 2023It's possible to hedge against inflation - but levels are difficult to predict
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The Big Reveal - insurers demand look-through...but reply in kind
08 November 2022CIOs 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
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Axa IM wins outsourcing mandate from parent's €610m German life book deal
15 July 2022Deferred annuities and endowments had average guarantee of 3.2%
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APAC nations boost green bond efforts to satisfy insurers' demand
11 April 2022APAC'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