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  • Comment: Time to rethink Solvency II and capital charging 'liquidity risk'?

    07 February 2023

    Is a different capital charge justified if a fund's redemption terms prevent one insurer encashing its investments compared to a directly-invested rival?

  • Société Générale Assurances partners with Tikehau Capital on unit-linked offering

    07 February 2023

    Part of efforts to "democratizing access to real assets"

  • The new normal is good old "normal volatility" Swiss Re says

    07 February 2023

    Making balance sheet management more important and challenging

  • Phoenix Group joins Transition Pathway Initiative

    07 February 2023

    Which will help it pursue its "science based approach to decarbonising" its portfolio

  • Solvency II capital benefit from diversification grows 14.4% at 56 groups, in 2021

    07 February 2023

    But market SCR of the cohort grows faster, Insurance Risk Data finds

  • Africa Specialty Risks appoints CFO

    06 February 2023

    Ciaran O'Donnell takes over from Bryan Howett

  • Vain hopes, vain aims, inordinate desires? (Part 1)

    06 February 2023

    A market view on ESG, by Corrado Pistarino, chief investment officer at Foresters Friendly Society

  • Comment - Is Australia on the verge of needing large ranks of CIOS?

    03 February 2023

    If hard-to-insure communities turn to mutuals as climate change intensifies losses, as private sector property insurers 'run from the hills', CIOs are going to be in demand

  • Chart of the Week - Post-Brexit UK attracts under 3% of Europe's GA

    03 February 2023

    EIOPA reveals direct UK exposure of EEA insurers' GAs at second lowest point since Q4 2017

  • Crédit Agricole Assurances acquires renewable projects portfolio from TotalEnergies

    03 February 2023

    Comprised of nuclear plants and wind farms valued at $300m