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A eulogy to traditional life insurance
14 July 2022Dearly Beloved, we are gathered here today at the death of traditional life insurance.
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Europe's life CIOs to trim risk-taking, predicts S&P Global Ratings
04 July 2022Yields on mainstream classes now enough to satisfy some guarantees
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Allianz sees promise, in a life of less promises
22 April 2022Once, lifers gave CEOs headaches and ate up their capital. But now, David Walker finds, it's their CEOs hungry for more, in a 'capital-lite' world
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Investment product sales help lifers put "worst" of times behind them, Fitch says
08 March 2022Allianz has become self-sustaining for capital on new life and health insuring
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Allianz Leben reveals equity fund losses, write-downs - and an improved 2020 investment result
13 April 2021Germany's largest life unit achieved 4.1% net yield
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German lifers at the mercy of interest rates falling lower, Fitch Ratings warns
02 February 2021Little room for restructuring the portfolios left if rates were to fall further
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Germany's ZZR remains a conundrum for insurers
29 December 2020Calculating pay-ins in Germany's Zinszusatzreserve (ZZR) was overhauled in 2018 to reduce pressure on German insurers to build the reserve too quickly by selling valuable investments just to satisfy mandatory contributions. Has the reform been just a 'one-year wonder'? David Walker investigates
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ZZR cuts required yield at German life firms by one-third
01 December 2020But industry body head says it's the correct mechanism to counter low interest rates