Archive

  • 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"

  • Folksam units back Swedish VC fund focused on climate themes

    17 May 2024

    Investment came from various units of the Swedish insurance group

  • Chart of the Week - The world's mutual insurers and ESG/climate investing

    03 November 2023

    From impact to renewables to SDGs - mutual insurers show appetite for 'doing good'

  • Afa Forsakring head of RI goes to Summa Equity

    23 August 2023

    Emelie Norling joins as impact director

  • UnipolSai reveals 'exotic' and somewhat luxurious investments

    22 August 2023

    Italian's GA complements rivals' stakes in art, maritime loans, holiday homes and "a Danish ship"

  • 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

  • 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

  • Going with the floe - Nordic and Scandinavian CIOs' returns anything but glacial in 2021

    14 November 2022

    While central and southern European CIOs were busy grinding out returns in tough markets, their Nordic and Scandinavian peers were flying, finds Dåvid Wälker

  • Are 'collectibles' and artworks good for general accounts? Two insurers frame their arguments

    04 October 2022

    From gold to holiday homes, Europe's insurers searched far and wide for yield in 2021

  • Swedish lifer waits on securitisations provider to meet Solvency II rules

    05 September 2022

    Regulations stipulate minimum 5% capital retention for securities