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Getting the measure of credit downgrade risk
21 September 2016Investors are questioning the impact of credit downgrades on insurers' Solvency II balance sheets. Hugo Coelho investigates how firms are gauging this risk and why they resist putting a figure on it.
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Zweimueller insists on risk charging sovereign bonds
09 September 2016But recognises risk of regulatory arbitrage
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Industry backs delay in derivatives clearing for small firms
05 September 2016Insurers may reduce hedging to avoid compliance burden, warns Insurance Europe
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Solvency II sovereign charges wait for white smoke from Basel
01 September 2016Berger criticised for excluding sovereign bonds from preparatory work for standard formula review
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ASR up on sovereigns, down on equities
24 August 2016Shrinking market risk budget and prompt reallocation
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DB pensions and insurers eye £300bn of gilts
23 August 2016Demand for assets to match rising liabilities
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Delta Lloyd sheds a third of equity portfolio
17 August 2016Cash holdings more than double
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P&C insurers first to feel the pinch of negative yielding gilts
11 August 2016Life insurers to hold on to long-dated bonds, despite BoE demand
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BoE presses on with government bond purchases
10 August 2016Will make up for shortfall from botched auction later in the year
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Pimco outflows tail off
05 August 2016Allianz anticipates end of the money drain in its US investment arm