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  • UK insurers unlikely to take 'material losses' from commercial real estate, Jefferies says

    31 March 2023

    CRE exposure concerns creep into insurance investment market

  • Recent equity gains face being wiped out by symmetric adjustment, Jefferies says

    13 January 2023

    Analysts expect market moves to have narrowed adjustment's benefit last quarter

  • LGIM risk management discredited by UK crisis, Jefferies analysts claim

    04 October 2022

    L&G responds to market concerns on impact of crisis on its business

  • 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

  • Comment - Inflation-linked bonds won't be enough for much 'insurance inflation'

    08 August 2022

    Hiking returns in line with CPI rises may fall short, in the short term, for many non-life insurers

  • AXA shareholders welcome better reinvestment yields

    05 August 2022

    Expected to boost investment income by €400m in 2022

  • Comment - On your marks, s-e-e-t, go (sell more life backbooks)!

    19 July 2022

    Jefferies analyst Philip Kett fires starting gun in possible race to sell life backbooks

  • Analysts welcome Axa's €661m German backbook deal

    18 July 2022

    Axa Deutschland's SFCR reveals "complete overhaul" of life product range

  • 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?