Archive

  • COTW - Round the World in SFCRs: Greece, Malta, Cyprus and Slovenia

    28 June 2024

    SFCRs from southern Europe's insurers contained a mix of epic investment performance, and conservative approaches in 2023

  • Japanese insurer's European merger could benefit sextet of external outsourcing partners

    27 June 2024

    Carne, BlueBay AM, Veritas AM; CBRE, Aegon AM and LGT Capital Partners set to benefit

  • BMA said to tighten screws over re/insurers' related-party investments

    25 June 2024

    Pre-approval now needed, as PE ownership structure under microscope again

  • COTW - Round the World with SFCRs - Iberian peninsula where core fixed income is king

    21 June 2024

    High-grade corporates and debt, mainly local, were dislodged rarely by other investments in Spain's and Portugal's GAs last year

  • Chart of the Week: Round the World - with Scandinavian/Nordic SFCRs

    14 June 2024

    Equities stormed on, but in other ways insurers' solvency filings revealed last year was "a mirror image of 2022"

  • German insurers had about two-thirds of basic capital requirement in market risk in 2023

    13 June 2024

    New analysis examined solvency data of 178 German firms on standard formula

  • Frankfurter Leben reveals further dive into private markets in 2023

    13 June 2024

    Private and real estate debt, as well as infrastructure equity, got additional injections from consolidator last year

  • Insurer of Danish academics could suffer complete collapse of shareholdings and remain solvent

    13 June 2024

    Akademikernes Pensionskassen SFCR reveals fate of solvency ratio after stress-tests

  • Alternatives prove their worth, again, for Germany's DEVK group

    13 June 2024

    Non-mainstream assets did better than fixed income and were steadier than shares since 2022

  • Alternative asset expansion in Europe's GAs topped core fixed income growth in 2023

    07 June 2024

    Infrastructure funds' 10.3% increase more than tripled core fixed income build-up