Archive

  • Rome to tax unit-linked products in bid to fund its €30bn budget

    18 October 2024

    Georgia Meloni wants Italy's insurers and banks to contribute about €3.5bn to government's next budget

  • COTW - Round the World with SFCRs - Benelux insurers praise outsourcing partners

    05 July 2024

    As Benelux CIOs generally got better news in 2023 and 2022, back-slapping for mandate managers seemed the order of the day

  • Brace! Brace! Tailspin in US variable annuity insurer shares revealed

    28 January 2022

    Airline stocks landed hard as the pandemic unfolded - but VA insurers plunged close behind

  • Private rating spike highlights concerns on insurer rating arbitrage

    27 January 2022

    US insurers' privately rated assets jumped 96% in last two years, NAIC finds

  • Canadian life insurers sail through pandemic with minimal investment losses

    18 August 2021

    Largest Canadian insurer made money in last 18 months, according to DBRS Morningstar

  • Europe's affiliates occupy half of top places for fund-based assets

    02 October 2019

    Affiliates' €2.2trn in funds is now nearly one third of total fund assets managed in Europe

  • Insurance affiliates hold their own at top table of Europe's asset managers

    30 September 2019

    Many insurers’ affiliated managers have been sent out by their parents to gather third-party assets in recent years – with varying success. The managers might put their affiliation to an underwriting group forward as a credential to win more insurance mandates, but a European CIO questions whether this can be a universal truth. David Walker reports

  • Low yields, high cost and underperformance: manager fees under the spotlight

    23 June 2017

    Paying high fees for your asset management is never welcome. In the current low return environment insurers are increasingly having to re-evaluate the charges they pay as fees eat into their profits. And not before time, too. Sarfraz Thind reports

  • Europe's affiliate managers chalk up 18.5% organic fund growth in 2016

    23 March 2017

    Eurizon steals BNP Paribas' top spot while two Allianz affiliates occupy leading five positions

  • Pimco and M&G slide down European fund rankings

    20 February 2017

    Large outflows see each manager's AuM decline dramatically since 2013