Archive

• Fitch predicts boost for Viridium's asset management arm from BlackRock deal

  04 April 2025

  Asset manager is in consortium buying Cinven out of life consolidator

• Comment - BaFin holds cards (close to its chest) in future of German life-book consolidation

  01 February 2024

  PE part-ownership of Viridium seems to have informed regulator's rejection of Zurich deal

• Life stakeholders find reasons to sing and dance about back book deals

  11 August 2022

  Those evaluating and otherwise benefitting from back book sales - including asset managers - tell David Walker they like what they see

• Pain relief - Sellers of life back books find their remedy

  04 August 2022

  Life CIOs once yearned for back book sales to reduce their yield-pain. But might higher interest rates do the same job, David Walker asks

• Axa IM wins outsourcing mandate from parent's €610m German life book deal

  15 July 2022

  Deferred annuities and endowments had average guarantee of 3.2%

• Chart of the week - Axa's German life sale in Grand Investment Pivot

  15 July 2022

  CEO, climate champion, oil-tanker captain, is there no job Thomas Buberl cannot do?

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

  07 October 2020

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

• Generali investment AuM soar on boutique purchases

  07 November 2019

  External assets more than double at Italy’s largest underwriter

• Viridium sells German real estate to buy "stable" assets

  30 September 2019

  Commerz Real acquires portfolio of 49 city-centre assets from insurer

• Less onerous ZZR reserving relieves pressure to encash investments

  02 May 2019

  German life insurers welcome rule change which lower their contributions to their interest rate reserve