Archive

  • Covéa agrees not to vote against Scor ballots as part of peace deal

    11 June 2021

    French mutual insurer holds 8.4% of reinsurer's shares

  • 'Significant shunt' in inflation on the cards, Signal Iduna warns

    09 June 2021

    Mid-tier German insurers reveal fall in yields - and how to beat it

  • Asset mix plays crucial role in predicting life insurers' failures, research finds

    18 February 2021

    Two economists from the French regulators highlight role of investments in insurers' insolvency

  • Bitcoin: blowing bubbles or truly sticky?

    18 January 2021

    Bitcoin is steaming into the stratosphere—and many want in. But is this speculative bubble going to appeal to insurers? Sarfraz Thind finds out.

  • Axa completes sale of Architas UK for €100m

    04 November 2020

    Group's asset managers near €1bn revenue

  • Extent of European insurers' sell-off in Q1 revealed

    21 October 2020

    Figure revealed in European Systemic Risk Board's response to Solvency II review

  • European insurance body calls for 'exit from loose monetary policy'

    02 September 2020

    Insurance Europe responds to European Central Bank consultation

  • ECB Bund buying puts insurers in the shade

    19 August 2020

    Bundesbank data shows Covid-19 no match for credit crunch

  • Mortgages - safe as houses, or 'waiving' goodbye to repayment returns?

    27 July 2020

    Home loans have proved popular with Europe's insurers, to the tune of €237bn invested in 2019, but that was in the good times. As many underwriters holding them are forced to delay collecting repayments amid COVID-19, some are re-running stress tests on their portfolios, David Walker finds

  • French trade bodies ask firms to cancel SMEs' rents

    20 April 2020

    Cancellation of three months of rent would be automatic but would exclude charges