Archive

  • Marc Michallet becomes responsible for investment management at R&V

    19 November 2024

    As R&V nabs Dragica Mischler from ÖRAG for finance and risk management

  • LGIM's £12bn pension risk transfer goldmine for Legal & General

    31 October 2024

    Some relationships with PRT clients stretch back over 25 years

  • L&G reveals role of AM relationships in winning pension-risk transfer business

    29 October 2024

    Three-quarters of deals done last quarter came from insurer's AM customers

  • German insurers had about two-thirds of basic capital requirement in market risk in 2023

    13 June 2024

    New analysis examined solvency data of 178 German firms on standard formula

  • Round the World with SFCRs - German insurers welcome interest rates tailwinds, but explore alts 'just in case'

    07 June 2024

    Fixed income and equities performance in 2023 wiped out write-downs many German insurers made in 2022

  • AXA Leben investment income slumps 43% after transfer to AGER Leben

    03 June 2024

    AXA Leben pinpoints Deutsche Beamten Versicherung Leben as backbook spun off

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

    22 May 2024

    Former BaFin insurance supervisor has joined Assekuranz committee

  • Comment - What future for PE-backed life book consolidators as AXA and Athora ditch transfer plans?

    07 May 2024

    Ending it was consensual, but BaFin was surely in the deal-partners' thoughts

  • SFCRs shine light on German legacy life books, and investments, of Zurich and AXA

    16 April 2024

    Groups have planned, with mixed success, to sell the back-books to consolidators Viridium and Athora, respectively

  • Chart of the Week - How IMAs could spell out the future of PE ownership of insurers

    23 February 2024

    Fee rates, and other T&Cs in the IMAs of PE houses and the consolidators they own, may attract (unwanted) regulatory attention