SFCR

Analysis

29 August 2025

Comment: How to lie to your GP...and spend a market SCR on jogging shoes

Non-life claims cost inflation is nothing, compared to Australia's 'plimsoll-cost inflation'
18 August 2025

Insurance Asset Risk's (unofficial) SFCR awards for best investment details

Honouring the exemplary solvency filings from insurers this year
13 August 2025

SFCR 2025 - France's CIOs return to 'core values' as fixed income shines

Alts are a delightful amuse-bouche - but Europe's largest industry still feeds up on its OATs
09 July 2025

SFCR 2025 - Northern exposure is not all about general account equities

Scandinavian and Nordic insurers find voice in SFCRs to sing praises for their alternative holdings. David Walker listened in
07 July 2025

From major regulators to major ratings agencies, funded re causes concern

From the UK to Japan to the rest of Asia, funded re rings warning bells at regulators and ratings agencies, and leading large lifers and their asset managers are treading carefully

News

  • Winners of the 2026 Insurance Asset Risk EMEA awards announced

    03 March 2026

    Aviva Investors takes away three awards this year

  • Chart of the Week - How bad Trump needs to be, to make Danish insurers insolvent

    30 January 2026

    SFCRs give insight into what it takes for debt deterioration to drive solvency to 100%

  • Insurance Asset Risk survey: US debt levels - should CIOs be worried?

    29 January 2026

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  • Chart of the week: can PE tame the insurance beast?

    12 December 2025

    What is the share of PE ownership of EU and US insurance industries?

  • Entries open for Insurance Asset Risk Awards 2026 - UK and Europe

    03 November 2025

    Awards aim to recognise those working across the insurance investment value chain

  • Chart of the Week: Why 439 is the 'magic number' for outsourcing managers working for Europe's CIOs

    24 October 2025

    Insurance Risk Data has published its seventh research report on investment outsourcing by Europe's CIOs

  • From public to private: how CIOs and PE are redrawing Europe's insurance landscape

    21 October 2025

    €230bn in PE-owned insurers and rising private allocations: key findings from IRD's 2026 Report

  • Chart of the Week - Calling all foreign-FX investments! (as cross-border GWP data reveals demand)

    19 September 2025

    Eiopa figures for cross-border premiums suggests a healthy market for Solvency II insurers going 'abroad'

  • APAC Weekly - Australians face up to reality of a catastrophic future as climate warms

    15 September 2025

    Bleak reading in nation's inaugural National Climate Risk Assessment

  • COTW: Getting out early - UK insurers wax lyrical on 'the trials of life', in lapse risk

    12 September 2025

    Sector did not speak as much about keeping GAs liquid to counter lapse risk, in 2024 SFCRs

  • Chart of the Week - How Jon Moulton is not the only individual keen to own a Greek/Cypriot insurer...

    22 August 2025

    Insurance Risk Data unearths €2bn Greek/Cyrpiot insurance balance sheet in hands of individual owners

  • COTW: The CIO's pivotal role in the insurance industry's 'balance sheet strength'

    15 August 2025

    When Europe's insurance CEOs extol their 'balance sheet strength', 86% of their praise belongs to the CIO

  • Cosmos expands equity portfolio by 98.472%

    12 August 2025

    Greater capital headroom in 2024 led Cypriot to reassess equities exposure

  • France's La Securite Familiale updates loss provisioning for commercial property bond

    08 August 2025

    And 'buys the dip' in Europe shares, late in 2024

  • Groupe France Mutuelle sings praises of structured bond market revival

    08 August 2025

    Investment combines a bond and a "performance engine"

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