News

  • German life firm sticks with 'qualifying' infrastructure in 2022

    02 May 2023

    Alte Leipziger Leben ran class through stress-tests, too

  • Allianz UK adds to infrastructure loans and private debt for yield and GA breadth

    01 May 2023

    Investment income rose in 2022 by £16m to £64m, its SFCR shows

  • Zurich's SST ratio leaps 55pp as all local units' ratios improved in 2022

    01 May 2023

    Reinsurer sells Canadian govvies to benefit from reinvestment rates

  • S&P Global sees UK industry trimming of illiquids

    01 May 2023

    EMEA life customers to "remain loyal", curbing lapse risk, rating agency says

  • Varma identifies equities as greatest risk to 129.6% solvency level

    30 April 2023

    Q1 investment return rose from -1.9% to 1% year on year

  • AG quadrupled its investment in green bonds in 2022, sustainability report shows

    28 April 2023

    Despite a 14% overall drop in assets under management

  • Chart of the Week - When the MA goes 'the wrong way' for Spanish lifers

    28 April 2023

    Ideally the MA, with life liabilities backed by predictable income assets, should improve users' capital coverage. Often, that's not been so in Spain.

  • Aegon AM partners with Lakemore to grow US CLO platform

    28 April 2023

    Lakemore will invest in Aegon AM's CLO business as part of deal

  • PIC spies private debt opportunities in UK government's net-zero ambitions

    27 April 2023

    As public market funds start to dry up in 2023

  • From Great Depression to Germany leaving the euro, Danes reveal what 'investment stress' really means

    27 April 2023

    Some SFCR stress tests outdo FSA's planned national testing