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Comment - Lapse risk, SFCRs and getting more transparency into Italian insurers
22 April 2024Nine data cells reveal the stress that sent one prominent lifer to the wall
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Rescuers of Eurovita divulge details of IVASS' bail-out plan in SFCRs
22 April 2024Lifer faced redemption and solvency pressure before rivals took on assets, and policies
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Prudential Life buys into shipping green bond for 1.175% coupon
19 April 2024While Nippon Life develops precinct in Kobe city
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Chart of the Week - Uniform SCR-breakdown for IM users becomes possible, for non-UK Insurers, at least...
19 April 2024A new EIOPA reporting template has made it possible to see uniform breakdown of IM and PIM users' Solvency II risk modules
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Comment: EIOPA fires its own starting gun on actually implementing Solvency II reform
18 April 2024Small yet pivotal parts of SFCRs for non-UK firms have been amended, with significantly better transparency one result
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Comparable SCR data appears for internal model users in Europe, from revised reporting requirements
18 April 2024New and amended Solvency II data templates are now being published by non-UK internal model users
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"Bonds are back" - Goldilocks appears for Lloyd's syndicates' fixed income holdings
18 April 2024Not a big bad bear was in sight when syndicates published annual reports in March, but many warned of elevated geopolitical instability risks
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Italy's lifers tap general accounts, and parental purses, as lapse risk endures in 2023
17 April 2024SFCRs describe levels, and ways to combat, lapse risk
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Japan's CIOs have alternatives managers in their sights
17 April 2024The Bank of Japan may have stolen the limelight last month, but insurance CIOs made headlines as well, with eye-catching allocations to non-mainstream assets and emerging managers
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SFCRs shine light on German legacy life books, and investments, of Zurich and AXA
16 April 2024Groups have planned, with mixed success, to sell the back-books to consolidators Viridium and Athora, respectively