Archive

  • Allianz reveals Covid-19 market impact in lengthy SFCR discussions

    08 April 2020

    But German's subsidiaries decide against publishing updated figures on market risk

  • World Health Day: IAR asks insurers for their clean bill of health

    07 April 2020

    With downgrades on the horizon, diversification is a key line of defence

  • Unit-linked products produced no return over 2014-18, Eiopa reports

    07 April 2020

    Pan-European review finds superior performance in profit participation products

  • Asset risk: Open hunting season or fool's gold?

    07 April 2020

    Sarfraz Thind takes a deep dive into how Covid-19 has distorted the market. In part one of this two part series he looks at commercial mortgage-backed securitisations (CMBS), collateralised loan obligation (CLO) and municipal bonds.

  • To pay or not to pay - risk, investment and treasury departments slug it out

    07 April 2020

    Intense conversations are happening behind the scenes at insurers on the best use of capital

  • Vaudoise CIO "quite relaxed" about current markets

    07 April 2020

    Reto Kuhn tells IAR last year's doubling of equity allocation not an issue this year

  • Shareholders brace for dividend cuts that gave them €25.5bn last year

    07 April 2020

    Europe's most generous payers mainly vow to honour stated payout plans

  • Hedging and diversification are Munich Re's remedies to COVID-19

    06 April 2020

    The reinsurer anticipates the impact of the virus to broaden

  • Talanx invests €200m in fibre optic project in France

    06 April 2020

    A growing sector which could experience high demand after COVID-19

  • IAR SURVEY: Insurers unprepared for COVID-19's market turbulence

    06 April 2020

    Insurance Asset Risk surveyed the industry to find out how it is rethinking asset allocation in the wake of COVID-19's impact on the economy and financial markets. Vincent Huck presents the results