Hugo Coelho

• BoE commits to purchase £10bn of corporate bonds

  04 August 2016

  Expansion of quantitative easing is initial response to Brexit vote

• Unipolsai investment yield up 10 basis points

  04 August 2016

  Increase is down to reduction of sovereign bond holdings and slow pace of reinvestment

• Bank of England to put the squeeze on UK insurers

  03 August 2016

  Monetary easing may include fresh round of asset purchases. Hugo Coelho reports

  

• Sovereign risk must be covered in the ORSA, says BaFin

  02 August 2016

  Insurers with significant exposures face capital add-on

• Generali goes slower on realising gains

  29 July 2016

  Insurer keen to preserve profitability in falling interest rate environment

• Generali commits fresh money to Italian bank rescue fund

  29 July 2016

  Insurer could give up to €200m

• Catching the last wave of the credit cycle

  13 July 2016

  Confronted with the prospect of an increase in default rates, insurers are hunting for yield in a more selective but expansive way, BlackRock's Zach Buchwald tells Hugo Coelho

• Transitional recalculation reduces risk of asset fire sales

  05 July 2016

  Financial Policy Committee defends flexible implementation of Solvency II framework

• Axa blames low yields for lower earnings growth

  21 June 2016

  Incoming chief executive lays out strategic plan for next five years

• Risk margin reform needed to save insurers from hedging dilemma

  13 June 2016

  Hedging stabilises Solvency II figures at the expense of IFRS