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  • Investment volatility and rising rates will keep lapse risk high in 2023, expect Italy's lifers

    05 May 2023

    Latest solvency reports described ways they combatted surrender risk in 2022

  • Chart of the Week - A Lack in Look-through

    05 May 2023

    Insurers pressure fund managers to reveal line-item detail of investments. SFCRs suggest it doesn't always work

  • Swiss Re boosts return on investments to 2.8% in Q1

    05 May 2023

    Up from 0.7% same time last year

  • Aviva Life & Pensions UK's MA-eligible assets fall in 2022

    05 May 2023

    MA asset portfolio dropped to £46.8bn, SFCR shows

  • Beneva ramps up investment in limited partnership equity securities

    04 May 2023

    As well as increasing its proportion of green assets, according to 2022 annual report

  • Voya IM hires Barbara Reinhard as CIO for multi asset strategies

    04 May 2023

    Will report to global CIO Matt Toms

  • Bolting for the door - could 'mass lapse' risk trigger 'mass bond sales' at French lifers?

    04 May 2023

    Better interest rates mean better investment options than life policies. As France's exposed lifers watch on, some count up their liquid assets, some count on customer loyalty - but will all ultimately count on CIOs, to sell off GAs? David Walker reports

  • Generali to transfer €2.8bn assets to Frankfurter Leben in pensions sale

    04 May 2023

    Parties hope M&A will complete by year's end

  • European lifers' liquidity risk manageable as surrender rates rise

    04 May 2023

    Fitch says sources of liquid funds and good ALM will protect sector

  • Comment - Time for Europe's lifers to 'talk tough' with their governments?

    04 May 2023

    Knowlingly or not, some of Europe's governments now have sovereigns able to compete with life policy promises