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  • 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

  • Gothaer ties staff-wide bonuses to climate goals

    04 May 2023

    Reducing portfolio emissions will be 10% of variable pay decisions

  • Attractive returns with policy guarantees "hardly possible" now in Germany, AXA Leben says

    04 May 2023

    Life unit continues tilt toward investment and part-guaranteed products

  • CNP Assurances in praise of an "all-terrain" investment strategy

    03 May 2023

    Chief investment officer Olivier Guigné, winner of this year's CIO of the year award from Insurance Asset Risk, talks macro economy, why no single scenario should now dominate a CIO's thinking, and why 2023 will be good for credit analysts - but bad for 'zombies'. Interview by Vincent Huck

  • PGIM takes majority stake in private credit manager Deerpath Capital

    03 May 2023

    Intending to grow expertise in lower-middle market-sponsored space

  • Comment - Rome turns into life insurers' competitor, as BTP yields jump

    03 May 2023

    Moody's posited sovereign debt as one rival investment to local lifers' policy promises

  • Canada Life extends £148m REIT loan to back annuity book

    03 May 2023

    Loan will let LXi REIT refinance mixed-use UK regional commercial property portfolio

  • Arca Vita uses alternatives to replace eurozone sovereigns in 2022

    03 May 2023

    Widening BTP spreads led to "management actions" decreasing bond investments

  • Pension Insurance Corporation reveals lower MA assets in 2022

    03 May 2023

    Only cash and funds increased in volume in PIC's MA