Archive

  • German insurers had about two-thirds of basic capital requirement in market risk in 2023

    13 June 2024

    New analysis examined solvency data of 178 German firms on standard formula

  • Round the World with SFCRs - German insurers welcome interest rates tailwinds, but explore alts 'just in case'

    07 June 2024

    Fixed income and equities performance in 2023 wiped out write-downs many German insurers made in 2022

  • Comment: 'Saving democracy' may be the next ESG investment frontier for CIOs

    05 June 2024

    Underwriters are defending democratic values in words and deeds, will CIOs follow suit?

  • Interest reserve unwind continues at German life insurers as rates rose in 2023

    31 May 2024

    Some life firms had to sell down assets in previous years to fund the ZZR

  • Gothaer ties staff-wide bonuses to climate goals

    04 May 2023

    Reducing portfolio emissions will be 10% of variable pay decisions

  • German life CIOs breath out, as the 'great ZZR unwind' begins

    19 April 2023

    In 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

  • LVM Versicherung sets net-zero interim target for investment portfolio

    28 December 2022

    To reduce CO2 emissions in the portfolio by 20% by the end of 2024

  • Comment - Did the Deutsche Reichsbürger have a functioning general account?

    16 December 2022

    The German extremists had been running insurance, so presumably a 'GA' existed, somewhere

  • German insurer asks, what if natcat reinsurance totally evaporates?

    11 August 2022

    LVM's latest SFCR reveals 'ESG scenario' run by the German composite

  • Chart of the Week: Insuring in World War II

    18 March 2022

    David Walker listens to the echoes of History