Archive

  • Frankfurter Leben reveals further dive into private markets in 2023

    13 June 2024

    Private and real estate debt, as well as infrastructure equity, got additional injections from consolidator last year

  • Round the World with SFCRs - German insurers welcome interest rates tailwinds, but explore alts 'just in case'

    07 June 2024

    Fixed income and equities performance in 2023 wiped out write-downs many German insurers made in 2022

  • Insurers back €1bn German venture capital fund of funds

    23 November 2023

    Generali Deutschland and Debeka among insurers to invest in fund

  • Generali to transfer €2.8bn assets to Frankfurter Leben in pensions sale

    04 May 2023

    Parties hope M&A will complete by year's end

  • Generali's captive reinsurer nails 7.3% net yield in 2021

    24 August 2022

    Returns included from PE, securitisations, funds

  • 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

  • German life firms reveal which investments got sold to feed ZZR

    07 June 2021

    But Allianz Leben says the reserve aids systemic sustainability

  • Generali reveals investment fortunes, and losses, at key European units

    19 April 2021

    Figures unveiled for Italian, German and French operations

  • Two German insurers beat 10% net investment yield in 2019

    07 October 2020

    But life insurers make just above sector's average crediting rate