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  • German life CIOs breath out, as the 'great ZZR unwind' begins

    19 April 2023

    In 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

  • Fitch downgrades Volkswohl Bund Leben on reinvestment yield

    03 November 2020

    Moody's hangs negative outlook on German life sector

  • Fitch demotes outlook on units of R+V, Condor, Stuttgarter

    19 May 2020

    Further rates falls endanger ability to cover guarantees with investments, agency says

  • Insurers update SCR ratios hit by investment market falls

    06 May 2020

    Dividend revisions, capital raisings and delays to Part VII transfers also explained in SFCRs. David Walker reports