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German insurers had about two-thirds of basic capital requirement in market risk in 2023
13 June 2024New analysis examined solvency data of 178 German firms on standard formula
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Round the World with SFCRs - German insurers welcome interest rates tailwinds, but explore alts 'just in case'
07 June 2024Fixed income and equities performance in 2023 wiped out write-downs many German insurers made in 2022
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Comment: 'Saving democracy' may be the next ESG investment frontier for CIOs
05 June 2024Underwriters are defending democratic values in words and deeds, will CIOs follow suit?
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Interest reserve unwind continues at German life insurers as rates rose in 2023
31 May 2024Some life firms had to sell down assets in previous years to fund the ZZR
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Gothaer ties staff-wide bonuses to climate goals
04 May 2023Reducing portfolio emissions will be 10% of variable pay decisions
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German life CIOs breath out, as the 'great ZZR unwind' begins
19 April 2023In past years, German lifers dispatched CIOs to raise cash to pay into their ZZRs - like it, or not. But that reversed, and sometimes heftily, as interest rates rose in 2022. David Walker reports
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LVM Versicherung sets net-zero interim target for investment portfolio
28 December 2022To reduce CO2 emissions in the portfolio by 20% by the end of 2024
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Comment - Did the Deutsche Reichsbürger have a functioning general account?
16 December 2022The German extremists had been running insurance, so presumably a 'GA' existed, somewhere
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German insurer asks, what if natcat reinsurance totally evaporates?
11 August 2022LVM's latest SFCR reveals 'ESG scenario' run by the German composite
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Chart of the Week: Insuring in World War II
18 March 2022David Walker listens to the echoes of History