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Pimco seals definitive deal with Unicredit for Italy's largest bad loan transaction
17 July 2017Affiliate of Allianz will run special purpose vehicle, along with hedge fund Fortress
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UK insurers can combat expiry of transitionals, say practitioners
14 July 2017Experts say risk margin and transitional measures expiry need not trigger risk asset sell-off, as predicted by the Bank of England
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UK life sector appetite for risk assets to drop by one-third
07 July 2017Bank of England posits influence of Solvency II risk margin as the main driver
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German life underwriters favour funds for new investments
06 July 2017Fund-based investments attracted 43% of fresh allocations made by the sector in 2016
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Prudential affiliate joins Allianz in emerging markets infrastructure foray
30 June 2017Eastspring Investments commits $500m to World Bank programme
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Why Aegon, Allianz, Aviva and NN are well prepared for rising rates
30 June 2017Many loans and mortgages offer resilience to interest rate volatility, and with talk of rising rates becoming more frequent – whether through optimism or anticipation – IAR unmasks the largest life insurers' allocations to the lesser-used asset classes. David Walker Reports
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Solvency II filings reveal extent of life insurers' illiquid investments
28 June 2017Insurance Risk Data, the data service offered by the publishers of IAR, examined the QRTs of Europe's largest life companies that together run €1trn of investments and found they had allocated €375.7bn to five illiquid asset classes. David Walker reports
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Market risk accounts for almost half of German non-life sector's SCR
16 June 2017Exclusive analysis by Insurance Risk Data shows the German life sector is not alone in facing investment challenges
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Issues around investment data disappoint insurers and regulators alike
14 June 2017Eiopa expresses surprise at quality of data on mainstream investments
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Industry surprised by regulators' lack of knowledge about private debt
13 June 2017But practitioners say underwriters need to familiarise themselves, too