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German life consolidators reveal lapse and liquidity risk details in latest SFCRs
08 May 2024All life undertakings discussed experiences, mitigations and examinations of surrenders, in 2023
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German life CIOs breath out, as the 'great ZZR unwind' begins
19 April 2023In 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
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Life stakeholders find reasons to sing and dance about back book deals
11 August 2022Those evaluating and otherwise benefitting from back book sales - including asset managers - tell David Walker they like what they see
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Pain relief - Sellers of life back books find their remedy
04 August 2022Life CIOs once yearned for back book sales to reduce their yield-pain. But might higher interest rates do the same job, David Walker asks
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Two German insurers beat 10% net investment yield in 2019
07 October 2020But life insurers make just above sector's average crediting rate