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Life stakeholders find reasons to sing and dance about back book deals
11 August 2022Those evaluating and otherwise benefitting from back book sales - including asset managers - tell David Walker they like what they see
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Pain relief - Sellers of life back books find their remedy
04 August 2022Life CIOs once yearned for back book sales to reduce their yield-pain. But might higher interest rates do the same job, David Walker asks
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Axa IM wins outsourcing mandate from parent's €610m German life book deal
15 July 2022Deferred annuities and endowments had average guarantee of 3.2%
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Chart of the week - Axa's German life sale in Grand Investment Pivot
15 July 2022CEO, climate champion, oil-tanker captain, is there no job Thomas Buberl cannot do?
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Generali investment AuM soar on boutique purchases
07 November 2019External assets more than double at Italy’s largest underwriter
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Viridium sells German real estate to buy "stable" assets
30 September 2019Commerz Real acquires portfolio of 49 city-centre assets from insurer
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Less onerous ZZR reserving relieves pressure to encash investments
02 May 2019German life insurers welcome rule change which lower their contributions to their interest rate reserve
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Generali's M&A path pays off in investment profits
14 March 2019Italian now earns 174bps more on investments than average policy guarantee