Archive

• Chart of the Week: Will insurers join an 'orderly queue', outside Silicon Valley Bank?

  17 March 2023

  From Silicon Valley Bank to Signature Bank, Silvergate to Credit Suisse, all eyes are on financials exposure

• Super Mario gets his P45, gives insurers not-so-super time for BTPs

  22 July 2022

  BTP spreads already jumped as Draghi got his (own) marching orders

• COMMENT: 'My kingdom for a spread'

  14 October 2021

  Vaccines were the welcome injections of the last few months, unlike central bank's own versions during COVID-19

• German insurers call on Christine Lagarde to normalise monetary policy

  05 November 2019

  ‘Unconventional policy measures’ should be for crises only, says GDV

• Insurers give ECB bond decision qualified support

  14 June 2018

  Industry holds €2.1tr in sovereigns

• A fight to the death - Talanx executive bemoans no-yield environment

  27 November 2017

  Insurer is fighting Mario Draghi to offset effects of nil-yield assets

• Solvency II equity dampener hits the floor

  10 March 2016

  Back to level recorded at the height of the Eurozone crisis

• The bond market isn't a one-way bet

  24 June 2015

  Prepare for a very bumpy ride in the markets over the next few weeks, Kerry Craig advises

• Time is running out for Greece

  27 April 2015

  Endgame in about six weeks, says JP Morgan; Draghi stresses about banks

• Navigating the hard realities of policy divergence

  31 March 2015

  The European Central Bank (ECB) unleashing quantitative easing just as the US Federal Reserve sits at the cusp of tightening is causing global currency spasms and market angst. Iain Stealy describes how insurance companies investing in bonds might react to these developments