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Just Group completes £42m buy-in with Scottish Milk

Deal secures the benefits of 452 retirees

Just Group completes £23m full buy-in with Rawle Gammon & Baker

Deal secures benefits of 113 deferred members and 154 pensioners

Chart of the Week: Round the World - with Scandinavian/Nordic SFCRs

Equities stormed on, but in other ways insurers' solvency filings revealed last year was "a mirror image of 2022"

Insurance Risk Data collecting key data and reports from breadth and width of Europe's insurance industry

Undertakings have published their annual solvency filings for 2023

Aviva Investors appoints Jill Barber as global head of distribution

"Don't bet interest rates will stay high forever", Zurich CFO warns

Zurich has inked $1.8bn reinsurance deal with Resolution for US life policies, as part of investment pivot

Bolting for the door - could 'mass lapse' risk trigger 'mass bond sales' at French lifers?

Better interest rates mean better investment options than life policies. As France's exposed lifers watch on, some count up their liquid assets, some count on customer loyalty - but will all ultimately count on CIOs, to sell off GAs? David Walker reports

French lifers emphasise GA asset liquidity in fight against lapse risk

Moody's report yesterday highlighted French insurer vulnerability to lapse risk as interest rates rise

GamaLife asset deal helps deplete Zurich unit's solvency coverage to 102%

But Italian welcomes deal for facilitating focus on unit-linked and capital-lite products

Going off-piste - how French CIOs are embracing alternatives

As French insurers venture 'off-piste' in their general accounts, David Walker examines if the 'black runs' of alternative asset classes will be simply exciting - or could break a leg or two