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German backbook deals and run-offs - a €150bn asset industry since 2014
01 February 2024Moody's examined 14 deals, completed, pending and scuttled
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Comment - BaFin holds cards (close to its chest) in future of German life-book consolidation
01 February 2024PE part-ownership of Viridium seems to have informed regulator's rejection of Zurich deal
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Comment - Are PE owners facing the end of their life backbook consolidation journey?
31 January 2024After BaFin's move on Zurich and Viridium, the future seems uncertain if 'PE ownership' breaks deals
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Nearly 2,000 European insurers have GAs smaller than in Zurich/Viridium's scuppered deal
31 January 2024BaFin has stopped life backbook deal involving €21bn of assets
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Zurich's German life backbook deal, with €21bn assets, with Virdium falls apart
30 January 2024'Project Sander' was to involve investment assets linked to 724,000 policies, German unit's SFCR said
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"Don't bet interest rates will stay high forever", Zurich CFO warns
17 May 2023Zurich has inked $1.8bn reinsurance deal with Resolution for US life policies, as part of investment pivot
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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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Comment - On your marks, s-e-e-t, go (sell more life backbooks)!
19 July 2022Jefferies analyst Philip Kett fires starting gun in possible race to sell life backbooks
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Chart of the week - Axa's German life sale in Grand Investment Pivot
15 July 2022CEO, climate champion, oil-tanker captain, is there no job Thomas Buberl cannot do?