Archive

  • Chart of the Week - Re/insurers ponder 'what if' about looming US elections

    26 July 2024

    Tokio Marine AM has set out four scenarios for November and the possible effects on key policy and economic variables

  • Munich Re calls for "common asset class for infrastructure investments" in Europe

    05 July 2024

    GDV's Berlin conference also hears impassioned calls for cut in regulatory burden

  • German insurers express disappointment at right-wing surge in France

    05 July 2024

    Financial markets have adjudged France as risky to lend to as Portugal

  • Frank Grund switches from supervising German insurers, to rating them

    22 May 2024

    Former BaFin insurance supervisor has joined Assekuranz committee

  • German lifers' optimism for fund-linked sales outshines all other policy types

    27 February 2024

    GDV surveyed lifers, and other underwriters, in Q4 2023

  • "What if Putin blocks gas supply?" ask chief economists of Swiss Re, Munich Re and Allianz

    11 May 2022

    Every parameter of Germany's business model stands under "immense pressure" as gas threat raised

  • Debeka plans sub-80% classic fixed income exposure and harder ESG engagement

    10 March 2022

    GDV reveals German insurers have €11bn invested in solar/wind renewables

  • R&V commits to net zero investing by 2050

    11 February 2022

    Equities and credit to be addressed first

  • Chart of the week - Why the GDV's Jörg Asmussen agrees with Kermit the Frog

    04 February 2022

    The overriding theme among German chief investment officers was not bonds, or equities, or real estate, in 2020.

  • Germany's mid-sized insurers call for more regional ESG projects to back

    03 February 2022

    MEP warns on commercialisation of important ESG data