Archive

  • Insurance and asset management - a marriage of convenience?

    19 August 2024

    Insurance Asset Risk analyses recent consolidations and sell-offs of AM units at European insurers

  • APAC Weekly - European M&A sits high on APAC insurers' agendas (and, seemingly, vice versa, too)

    13 August 2024

    But Allianz's Singapore deal shows 'two can play that game'

  • External inflows to PIMCO and AllianzGI already beat Allianz's full-year goals

    15 May 2024

    PIMCO and AllianzGI now run €1.8trn of other people's money

  • Comment - Why the planet may well thank Swiss Re's CEO Christian Mumenthaler

    03 April 2024

    Swiss Re announced today Mumenthaler will leave the group - destination unknown - in July

  • Comment - Is it right when insurers publish details of top staff getting pay-cuts?

    05 March 2024

    From Allianz's Oliver Bäte to Sompo's Mikio Okumura, top managers at insurers realise the importance of broadcasting pay-cuts, when necessary

  • Comment: Share prices suggest insurers' shareholders might not care much about the 'G' in ESG

    26 February 2024

    Shareholders of Japan's insurers pocketed 150% since Q1 2020 while the Topix made 98% - so do the sector's governance issues matter?

  • Comment - Italians' famed civility might be sorely tested, by Eurovita's gating

    06 July 2023

    IVASS has locked policyholders in until November

  • Pimco looks to alternatives to counter shaky traditional bond flows

    04 July 2023

    According to Allianz CEO Oliver Baete

  • Allianz takes crown as Europe's most complex insurance group

    24 May 2023

    Aviva Investors funds contribute significantly to parent's 700 Solvency II entities

  • Comment: What's in a name? How investors are a 'proxy-SCR' for insurers' reputation risk

    27 March 2023

    Reputations contain much value quickly lost, especially in the financial sector reliant on trust