Archive

  • M&G completes £309m buy-in transaction with NSK's UK pension scheme

    02 July 2024

    Deal protects benefits of 3,700 scheme members

  • Chart of the Week: Round the World - with Scandinavian/Nordic SFCRs

    14 June 2024

    Equities stormed on, but in other ways insurers' solvency filings revealed last year was "a mirror image of 2022"

  • Insurer of Danish academics could suffer complete collapse of shareholdings and remain solvent

    13 June 2024

    Akademikernes Pensionskassen SFCR reveals fate of solvency ratio after stress-tests

  • Slovakian regulator petitioning to liquidate parts of Novis

    09 June 2023

    Novis plans contesting the NbS order in court

  • Northern exposure - equities bestow mixed blessings on Nordic/Scandinavian insurers in 2022

    15 May 2023

    Markets may have dived as rates, geopolitical tension and inflation rocketed, but Scandinavian and Nordic insurers' faith in equities was not always misplaced. David Walker reports

  • Generali to transfer €2.8bn assets to Frankfurter Leben in pensions sale

    04 May 2023

    Parties hope M&A will complete by year's end

  • From Great Depression to Germany leaving the euro, Danes reveal what 'investment stress' really means

    27 April 2023

    Some SFCR stress tests outdo FSA's planned national testing

  • P+ Pensionskassen for Akademikere's illiquids perform in falling year

    17 April 2023

    But Dane writes down alts harshly to prevent iniquity between members payouts

  • CIOs prepare for 'symmetric warfare' over listed shareholdings

    18 January 2023

    Europe's regulators are discussing almost doubling how far they allow the equities 'symmetric adjustment' to fluctuate. David Walker examines the implications for CIOs' capital consumption

  • Skandia invests in the first Swestr bond

    05 January 2023

    Life insurer commits SEK 500m to the two-year maturity bond