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  • Investment returns raise Storebrand solvency in Q2

    15 July 2020

    Norwegian insurer has re-stocked its equities portfolio

  • Italian insurers headed for middle ground in credit ratings in 2019

    19 June 2020

    Ivass gives details on BTP spread testing in 2019 Orsas

  • Italian insurers lost 25 points from solvency ratios in Q1 amid market tumult

    19 June 2020

    Ivass points to inadequacy of volatility adjustment

  • Zurich insurer subjects general account to coronavirus market stress-tests

    11 June 2020

    Global pandemic inflicts less damage on firm's solvency than a dirty bomb, SFCR says

  • European insurers reveal solvency damage from multi-faceted stress tests

    08 June 2020

    Sensitivity tests include re-runs of 2008/09 and magnified German Reunification

  • Mapfre's solvency ratio falls half as sharply as key rivals in Q1

    08 June 2020

    Spaniard's coverage still shed 5% of its value, despite cutting shares and duration

  • COVID-19 shock is reality check for SII framework, Cattolica's CIO says

    05 June 2020

    Massimo di Tria's comments after local regulator ordered insurer to increase capital by €500m

  • Axa and Ageas put SCR through landmark investment crises in latest stress tests

    04 June 2020

    Both insurance giants emerge with ratios intact though not unscathed, Insurance Risk Data research finds

  • Aviva stress-tests investment outsourcing costs

    03 June 2020

    Aviva plc subsidiaries are stress-testing investment outsourcing fees as part of reckoning how sensitive their solvency coverage is to undesirable scenarios

  • Pandemic investment scenarios show bonds concerns at major European insurers

    28 May 2020

    Insurers publish results of COVID-19 scenarios, as they divulge credit portfolio losses