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  • European insurers' foray into Asian real estate

    17 December 2019

    David Walker explores the opportunities and challenges for insurers investing in real estate in the Far East.

  • Sustainability: to regulate or not regulate?

    05 December 2019

    Financial regulation has a role to play in tackling climate change, but it cannot be a silver bullet. So the time has come for policymakers to step up their game, delegates at the Insurance and Climate Risk conference heard. Vincent Huck reports

  • Widening spreads on Italian govvies – curse or opportunity?

    28 November 2019

    Volatilità was one of the hot topics of 2018, and while widening Italian government bond spreads stressed insurers solvency ratios, was there an investment opportunity to be made? Vincent Huck reports

  • Related holdings dominate German reinsurers' investments

    25 November 2019

    BaFin finds holdings three times as large as reinsurers' combined credit and debt investments

  • Finding the holy grail

    21 November 2019

    With low interest rates impacting solvency ratios, insurers are looking for the holy grail of high yielding assets which do not require higher capital charges. Vincent Huck reports

  • SII review will be "evolution rather than revolution", Bernardino says

    19 November 2019

    Eiopa chairman shares his thoughts on the future of the industry

  • IMF calls on French regulator to monitor liquidity risk

    01 November 2019

    Heightened liquidity risk of life insurance products means that liquidity needs to be addressed explicitly, international institution warns

  • Solvency II equity capital charges "absurd", French MoF says

    29 October 2019

    Profile of liabilities backed by equities vital in capital charge decision, Eiopa chairman replies

  • Solvency II treatment of interest rate risk is wrong, Eiopa’s Bernardino says

    28 October 2019

    Europe should be proud of its regulatory regime, European watchdog says at French industry event

  • French regulator reveals priorities under Solvency II review

    28 October 2019

    Governor François Villeroy de Galhau also tells insurers to reduce rates to policyholders and to diversify