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• Insurers and supervisors clash over equity investments

  28 June 2018

  During a panel discussion at Insurance Europe conference, the insurance industry and the supervisory authorities clashed over the level of equity investments. Industry representatives accused the European Commission and the European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Authority of ignoring market realities. Aggelos Andreou reports

• Zweimueller insists on risk charging sovereign bonds

  09 September 2016

  But recognises risk of regulatory arbitrage

• Solvency II sovereign charges wait for white smoke from Basel

  01 September 2016

  Berger criticised for excluding sovereign bonds from preparatory work for standard formula review

• Solvency II infrastructure charges reduction at risk

  01 December 2015

  Parliament requests extension of three-month scrutiny period