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COTW - Round the World in SFCRs: Greece, Malta, Cyprus and Slovenia
28 June 2024SFCRs from southern Europe's insurers contained a mix of epic investment performance, and conservative approaches in 2023
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Aviva Investors insurer is one of just seven building solvency every year under Solvency II
08 January 2024Insurance Risk Data analysed 974 undertakings' solvency data since 2016
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Negative rates and UK banks pulling services drag on EEA insurers' cash
01 September 2022Standard Chartered and Close Brothers under fire for pulling euro service post-Brexit
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Greek insurers bemoan low yields on once-tragic local debt
28 June 2021One CIO liquidated a bond originally designed to bail Greece out, for its negative yield to maturity
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Cash a 'sweat-able asset' in need of exercise
04 November 2020Cash once used to be king, but the cost of holding it has become prohibitive for insurers, who are also weary of the prospect of losing money in their safe harbour asset class: government bonds. Has the time to make their money "sweat" come? David Walker asks
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Greek insurers reveal their dash from cash when cap controls were lifted
22 September 2020Athens removed last residual curbs on overseas transfers a year ago