Archive

  • French units go 'lite' on solvency reporting in truncated reports

    02 August 2023

    SFCRs are already not all uniform in their length or format, Insurance Risk Data finds

  • German affiliated managers push further into real assets

    31 July 2023

    Munich Re and Signal Iduna managers announce deals and recruitment

  • Chart of the Week - Breakdown of market risk SCR of AEMA group subsidiaries, 2022 (%)

    28 July 2023

    A 'group market risk SCR' can mask very divergent risk-taking at subsidiaries

  • Chart of the Week - SFCRs as EIOPA's answer to the 'Barbenheimer dilemma'

    21 July 2023

    SFCRs will tell you if market crashes hurt insurers' solvency more than pandemics - but not whether to watch Robert Oppenheimer or Margot Robbie...

  • Brussels' Solvency II reform hits German life firm's solvency only 60% as hard as Putin's war, SFCR finds

    20 July 2023

    IDEAL Leben stress-tests Solvency II reform, Vladimir Putin's bellicosity, property values and climate change

  • Comment - Brussels sprouts green proposals for Solvency II reform

    19 July 2023

    Brussels vote bets almost all chips on 'green' - and implies insurers should do the same

  • Solvency II sustainability amendments "a missed opportunity", campaigners say

    19 July 2023

    According to advocacy groups, despite new requirements around transition planning

  • French mutual's SFCR asks, 'whither our GA, if teleworking triggers a mental-health breakdown?'

    18 July 2023

    Underwriters also question restorative firepower and readiness, of central banks

  • French insurer reveals solvency ratio benefit from equity hedging

    18 July 2023

    Total return swap limited damage from falling markets in 2022

  • German insurer cites infrastructure investments for plunging equity SCR

    17 July 2023

    Part of analysis of over European 100 groups' market risk capital requirements since 2016