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  • 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

  • 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.

  • Large insurance groups' solvency budged only mildly, if spreads worsen

    26 April 2023

    Analysis by IRD backs Moody's findings on major groups' strong ratios

  • French lifers emphasise GA asset liquidity in fight against lapse risk

    21 April 2023

    Moody's report yesterday highlighted French insurer vulnerability to lapse risk as interest rates rise

  • GamaLife asset deal helps deplete Zurich unit's solvency coverage to 102%

    19 April 2023

    But Italian welcomes deal for facilitating focus on unit-linked and capital-lite products

  • SFCR Season - How Europe's CIOs investments paid off, or not, in 2022

    18 April 2023

    Insurance Asset Risk launches a season of features analysing how European CIOs won, and lost, money for their employers, in 2022

  • P+ Pensionskassen for Akademikere's illiquids perform in falling year

    17 April 2023

    But Dane writes down alts harshly to prevent iniquity between members payouts

  • Mapfre's Spanish unit says Ukraine conflict rendered economists' forecasts "useless"

    14 April 2023

    Outlook for 2023 "looks very confusing", it added

  • LDI turmoil "challenged clients' ability to provide additional cash" to LDI funds, L&G unit says

    13 April 2023

    Urgent LDI fund cash calls exceeded internal liquidity buffers, L&G Assurance Pensions Management says