Archive

  • European insurers' ratings safe from EIOPA fossil surcharges, Fitch says

    21 November 2024

    Agency predicts proposed increase in capital requirements would affect firms' Solvency II ratios by less than 100bps

  • Chart of the Week - Japan's largest groups reveal GA changes after strategic equity sales

    15 November 2024

    All Japan's large non-life insurers are eliminating their long-term cross-holdings in other companies

  • Veni, vidi, vici (iterum, in Washington DC)

    08 November 2024

    The 'US election general account' of European insurers revealed

  • EIOPA recommends additional capital requirements for insurers' fossil fuel assets

    07 November 2024

    As part of its report on the prudential treatment of sustainability risks within Solvency II

  • EIOPA opens consultation on regulation for insurers' crypto holdings

    25 October 2024

    Pledges to revisit rules as market develops

  • Chart of the Week - Oh say, can you see...Just how much European CIOs want US fund managers

    25 October 2024

    March European insurers hit 'peak US funds' with €71bn allocation

  • Chart of the Week - Fixed income maturities at Bermuda's re/insurers

    11 October 2024

    Analysing the liquidity of Bermuda's re/insurers through contractual maturities patterns

  • Chart of the Week - Do European lifers' liquid assets cover their recent policy lapses?

    04 October 2024

    We examine GA and UL/IL asset volumes in light of inaugural data on life policy lapses in 2023

  • Chart of the Week - Are PE owners stripping capital out of Bermudian re/insurers they own?

    20 September 2024

    Any insurance regulator's concern is an owner who takes more than it gives, in capital terms

  • EIOPA dashboard paints picture of stable market, with pockets of vulnerability

    01 August 2024

    Real estate market still a cause for concern