David Walker

• Round the World with SFCRs - Lapse risk endures in France as life clients spy 'greener grass'

  20 May 2024

  The risk of customers leaving early remains at French lifers, despite rates softening in 2023, keeping CIOs on alert

  

• T&D Financial buys into motorway firm's social bond

  20 May 2024

  Bond proceeds will fulfil various sustainability goals in T&D Financial's ESG programme, it says

• Spanish life firm investments jump over 10% in 2023, regulator reveals

  17 May 2024

  Industry sat on €283bn investment pot at end of 2023

• Folksam units back Swedish VC fund focused on climate themes

  17 May 2024

  Investment came from various units of the Swedish insurance group

• Chart of the Week - Japanese life CIOs, super-long bonds and shareholdings

  17 May 2024

  Moody's and Life Insurance Association of Japan analyse trends in one key, and one more peripheral, asset class

• Moody's expects re-invigorated buying of private credit by lifers as rate-cuts loom

  16 May 2024

  Ratings agency presented thorough analysis of drivers of demand by lifers for illiquids/private assets globally

• German general account ends 2023 agonisingly close to €2trn, BaFin finds

  16 May 2024

  BaFin reveals "significant write-downs" on insurers' private and commercial property credit investments

• 'Silent run-off' occurring in German life market, says Moody's

  16 May 2024

  Backbook life deals denied and abandoned, have stolen the limelight recently

• A 41% jump in unit-linked lapses drives net outflows from French lifers

  16 May 2024

  Surrender payments were double the claims payments made by French life firms last year

• European insurers' property exposure hit two-year low

  15 May 2024

  But CIO involvement in green bonds markets marks multi-year high