Archive

  • COVID-19 relief measures drive German public debt increase

    31 December 2020

    Berlin's need for credit jumped markedly in Q3 to fund actions to fight the pandemic

  • French insurers account for one third of all bonds held by EEA insurers in 2019

    31 December 2020

    Bulgarians and Estonians record highest proportional allocation to govvies and corporate bonds, respectively, in general accounts

  • Interview with German Insurance Association CEO Joerg Asmussen

    31 December 2020

    Speaking with Insurance Asset Risk's David Walker about low interest rates and challenges and opportunities for the sector beyond 2020

  • Equity: Listed for Brits, unlisted for French, Swedes just love it

    30 December 2020

    Insurance Asset Risk reveals how European insurers like their equity holdings

  • EU regulations have proven their worth in 2020—2021 will be about fine tuning

    30 December 2020

    Elizabeth Gillam, head of EU government affairs & public policy at Invesco, talks about the EU's regulatory pipeline for the coming year, and the key pieces of legislation that may affect insurers' investments. Interview by Vincent Huck

  • Expect a year of two halves for 2021—the bad, followed by the impressive

    30 December 2020

    Investment horizon will closely track vaccine rollout, Manulife says

  • "Unloved" UK market gets boost from Brexit trade deal success

    30 December 2020

    UK market's future is the €56bn question for Europe's insurers

  • China Great Wall AM manager under regulatory investigation

    29 December 2020

    Chinese watchdog alleges "serious violation of discipline and law"

  • UK insurers hold most CRE debt of European peers

    29 December 2020

    But individually Dutch insurers are bigger spenders in the asset class

  • BaFin's Frank Grund rebuffs risk of instrumentalising ESG

    29 December 2020

    Germany's top insurance regulator calls sustainability "social and cross-generational topic"