Vincent Huck

• Mapfre and Swiss Life France co-invest €296.1m in Paris real estate

  29 July 2019

  Spanish insurer commits a further €500m to alternative investments, bringing total allocation to the asset class to €1bn

• Hiscox’s H1 investment returns main driver of $168m profit

  29 July 2019

  Investment result of $148m balances out low reserve releases

• French insurers’ solvency vulnerable through exposure to parent banks

  26 July 2019

  Exposure can reach more than 50% of insurers’ capital, IMF warns

• Crédit Agricole Assurances acquires Parisian offices

  26 July 2019

  Amundi Real Estate appointed asset manager

• Natixis Assurances MD appointed president of French Bancassurance Group

  25 July 2019

  Jean-François Lequoy will also serve as vice-president of the French Insurance Federation

• Chinese insurers piling up investments in bank capital securities

  24 July 2019

  Move is credit negative, Moody’s warns

• California insurance commissioner to moderate climate risk roundtable

  23 July 2019

  Three US senators and the senior adviser to the governor of California make up panel of experts

• IAR’s European conference: CIOs' outlook

  23 July 2019

  At Insurance Asset Risk EMEA 2019 conference, three CIOs of European insurers gave their outlook on the current environment. In the third of a three-part series, they discuss considerations in the late stage of the cycle. Compiled by Vincent Huck

  

• Eiopa proposes further standardisation of insurers’ disclosures

  22 July 2019

  Proposals respond to analyst demands for sensitivity tests and evolution of own funds

• Singaporean life insurers exposed to risk of falling asset prices

  19 July 2019

  Despite strong buffers over and above their minimum capital requirements, two of the four largest Singaporean insurers by assets breach minimum capital requirements in the International Monetary Fund's stress test. Vincent Huck reports