Archive

  • APAC Weekly - Japan's insurers may not 'roar' in overseas M&A deals, but increasingly they want the lion's share

    24 March 2025

    It would be misplaced to say the Japanese want back-row seats in global expansion

  • T&D Holdings to pay JPY 120bn as part of Viridium buyer consortium

    21 March 2025

    Japanese group will hold 29.9% of the life book consolidator if the deal is allowed

  • A 'Happy Future' for Viridium and its new owners including BlackRock?

    20 March 2025

    Cinven is selling out of German life consolidator to insurers and manager, in €3.5bn deal

  • Consortium of insurers and asset managers acquire Viridium

    20 March 2025

    Hanover Re is joined by Allianz and BlackRock

  • A Lasting legacy - How Medvida is still helping Spanish lifers shed unwanted backbooks

    26 June 2024

    Life consolidation and backbook deals may have hit hurdles in Germany, but in Spain Antonio Trueba, CEO of consolidator Medvida Partners paints a different picture

  • 'Silent run-off' occurring in German life market, says Moody's

    16 May 2024

    Backbook life deals denied and abandoned, have stolen the limelight recently

  • German life consolidators reveal lapse and liquidity risk details in latest SFCRs

    08 May 2024

    All life undertakings discussed experiences, mitigations and examinations of surrenders, in 2023

  • Viridium adds to investment burden, by doubling guarantee for Generali Leben's policyholders

    08 May 2024

    CEO Tilo Dresig addresses BaFin's stopping Viridium's planned back-book deal with Zurich

  • Comment - What future for PE-backed life book consolidators as AXA and Athora ditch transfer plans?

    07 May 2024

    Ending it was consensual, but BaFin was surely in the deal-partners' thoughts

  • SFCRs shine light on German legacy life books, and investments, of Zurich and AXA

    16 April 2024

    Groups have planned, with mixed success, to sell the back-books to consolidators Viridium and Athora, respectively