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Eiopa seeks academic research input on investment allocations
23 October 2019EU watchdog also looking for input on liquidity testing
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Sustainability and Solvency II: an imprudent regime
17 October 2019Aviva Investors' Steve Waygood and Ben Carr, discuss integrating sustainability risk to Solvency II capital requirements, and why in some respect the prudential regulation is ‘imprudent’. Interview by Vincent Huck
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Sustainability and Solvency II: Is the frog dead yet?
10 October 2019If the planet is a frog in a saucepan heated by the market, at the moment we are only taking the temperature and not reducing the heat, according to Steve Waygood, chief responsible investment officer, and Ben Carr, analytics and capital modelling director, at Aviva Investors. Interview by Vincent Huck
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Eiopa draws a blank on Solvency II risk charges for climate change
01 October 2019But warns industry to take account of climate risk in investments and valuation
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German insurers shift bond holdings from domestic market to France
17 September 2019Eiopa statistics reveal a marginal shift in allocation
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Eiopa reveals 12.9% of insurers’ investments exposed to climate risk
13 September 2019EU financial regulators publish report on risk and vulnerability in EU financial system
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Climate change old hat for re/insurers, BaFin president says
09 September 2019Felix Hufeld warns climate change issues now need to be debated at a political level
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Insurers get defensive in the face of Brexit fears
29 August 2019In the three years since the UK voted to leave the European Union, the emotional pendulum has swung from hope to despair – regardless of where one stands on the issue – making fertile ground for comments. But what do the numbers say when looking at insurers' asset allocation in the years since the referendum? Vincent Huck reports.
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French insurers’ solvency vulnerable through exposure to parent banks
26 July 2019Exposure can reach more than 50% of insurers’ capital, IMF warns
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Eiopa proposes further standardisation of insurers’ disclosures
22 July 2019Proposals respond to analyst demands for sensitivity tests and evolution of own funds