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Chart of the Week - How Europe's CIOs keep falling in love with the U-S-A
08 March 2024The volume of US debt in Europe's general account has grown and grown
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Investors reveal how Solvency II reform could change views on UK insurers' bonds
05 February 2024While EIOPA reveals how investors view European underwriters' bonds and equities
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Govvies at second lowest ebb since 2017 in Europe's GA
19 January 2024Europe's GA is 14% off its long-term peak, EIOPA data shows
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Chart of the Week - Liz Truss breathes easy, as Rishi Sunak takes the reins of UK political investment risk
12 January 2024CIOs go 'risk-on' for 'other' category sovereigns, as elections loom in 64 nations behind 40% of global GDP, in 2024
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Chart of the New Year - Where Europe's CIOs choose to invest GAs in funds
05 January 2024If you want to launch a fund for a European GA, you could do worse than using Germany, France or Luxembourg...
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Solvency II reforms fail to embed double materiality, ShareAction says
28 December 2023Final political trilogue establishing the shape of Solvency II are a reversion to single materiality, Caroline Metz says, amidst a growing ESG backlash in Europe
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Chart of the Week - Lapse risk hits European unit-linked business in 2023
22 December 2023EIOPA sheds light on levels of lapse risk, and investment activity, for lifers' unit-linked policies since 2021
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EIOPA proposes capital charges on fossil fuel assets
15 December 2023Proposals are part of review of Solvency II mandate
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Life insurers not turning away from alternative investments yet, EIOPA says
12 December 2023Many had expected life insurers' "search for yield" would become less pronounced
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Distilling complexity for CIOs' benefit
06 November 2023Various pressures have come to bear on insurance CIOs in recent years - and not always because of mercurial investment markets. Schroders' Alberto Scarsini distils the challenges to find the basic elements