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SFCRs shine light on German legacy life books, and investments, of Zurich and AXA
16 April 2024Groups have planned, with mixed success, to sell the back-books to consolidators Viridium and Athora, respectively
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Chart of the Week - How IMAs could spell out the future of PE ownership of insurers
23 February 2024Fee rates, and other T&Cs in the IMAs of PE houses and the consolidators they own, may attract (unwanted) regulatory attention
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Fitch says PE ownership not necessarily credit-negative for insurers
15 February 2024Ratings agency looks at insurers' investment strategy riskiness among other facets for credit assessments
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Chart of the Week - As a €21bn deal is scuppered by BaFin, have PE owners run out of road for life book sales?
02 February 2024German regulator's refusal to Zurich and Viridium seems bad news for insurers owned by PE
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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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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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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