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Axa enters exclusive talks to sell investment arm to BNP Paribas
02 August 2024Deal will create one of the largest asset management platforms in Europe
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Comment - Why the planet may well thank Swiss Re's CEO Christian Mumenthaler
03 April 2024Swiss Re announced today Mumenthaler will leave the group - destination unknown - in July
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Comment: Share prices suggest insurers' shareholders might not care much about the 'G' in ESG
26 February 2024Shareholders of Japan's insurers pocketed 150% since Q1 2020 while the Topix made 98% - so do the sector's governance issues matter?
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Chart of the Week - How IMAs could spell out the future of PE ownership of insurers
23 February 2024Fee rates, and other T&Cs in the IMAs of PE houses and the consolidators they own, may attract (unwanted) regulatory attention
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Nippon Life plans foreign bond buying for foreign-FX endowment insurance
23 February 2024Among other insurers YoY foreign-FX exposure is fairly immobile
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Thomas Buberl courts alternative asset managers able to enhance Axa's position
22 February 2024Life book actions are ended, heralding stabilisation of asset management outflows after 2023
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Chart of the Week - SFCRs as EIOPA's answer to the 'Barbenheimer dilemma'
21 July 2023SFCRs will tell you if market crashes hurt insurers' solvency more than pandemics - but not whether to watch Robert Oppenheimer or Margot Robbie...
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Europe's life giants trip the lite switch firmly 'on'
08 March 2023Thomas Buberl, and Oliver Bäte are men with a mission, to preach the gospel of low-capital product. But will their customers buy it? David Walker asks
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Comment: CIOs enjoy strong tailwinds of goodwill in 'transition GAs', in a ride that CUOs might only dream of
08 March 2023Why a CIO's life with the media can be so much touchy-feelier than a CUO's, in our era of climate change
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Going off-piste - how French CIOs are embracing alternatives
10 January 2023As French insurers venture 'off-piste' in their general accounts, David Walker examines if the 'black runs' of alternative asset classes will be simply exciting - or could break a leg or two