Archive

  • 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?

  • 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

  • Generali's M&A path pays off in investment profits

    14 March 2019

    Italian now earns 174bps more on investments than average policy guarantee