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Round the World with SFCRs - German insurers welcome interest rates tailwinds, but explore alts 'just in case'
07 June 2024Fixed income and equities performance in 2023 wiped out write-downs many German insurers made in 2022
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Frank Grund switches from supervising German insurers, to rating them
22 May 2024Former BaFin insurance supervisor has joined Assekuranz committee
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Talanx investment results outshine 93% fall in industrial lines figures
21 March 2024German group consciously took losses to buy into better yields on offer
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Comment: The strong case for ESG investing 'with national characteristics'
29 February 2024From green bonds to "animal attack" insurance, underwriters have an endless list of locally-appropriate ESG actions to take
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Talanx plans further fixed income rotations in 2H
14 August 2023German group posts record half year net income for 2023
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Talanx invests in Swedish hydropower
22 June 2023Via Ampega AM and in partnership Augusta IM and Uniper
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Talanx plays it safe with "low beta" portfolio
15 May 2023Green investments retraced in value, mildly, from €8bn in December
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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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Alte Leipziger welcomes ZZR bill vanishing in 2022
22 March 2023Life unit's investment result plunges 42% as sales pressure for interest reserve vanishes
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Chart of the Week: Will insurers join an 'orderly queue', outside Silicon Valley Bank?
17 March 2023From Silicon Valley Bank to Signature Bank, Silvergate to Credit Suisse, all eyes are on financials exposure