Archive

  • Zurich Life appoints new CFO

    11 July 2024

    Japanese insurer gave upbeat report on 2023 investment climate

  • 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

  • Zurich's SST ratio leaps 55pp as all local units' ratios improved in 2022

    01 May 2023

    Reinsurer sells Canadian govvies to benefit from reinvestment rates

  • GamaLife asset deal helps deplete Zurich unit's solvency coverage to 102%

    19 April 2023

    But Italian welcomes deal for facilitating focus on unit-linked and capital-lite products

  • How regulatory data can unlock the door to competitive advantage

    26 June 2018

    The data in Solvency II quantitative reporting templates can be used to gain insight and edge, David Walker reports.

  • Solvency II filings reveal extent of life insurers' illiquid investments

    28 June 2017

    Insurance Risk Data, the data service offered by the publishers of IAR, examined the QRTs of Europe's largest life companies that together run €1trn of investments and found they had allocated €375.7bn to five illiquid asset classes. David Walker reports