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  • Riksbyggen and Newsec win SEK 65bn Swedish property outsourcing deals

    17 June 2025

    Mandates will begin next January

  • SFCR 2025 - The matching adjustment misfired, again, in Spain in 2024

    13 June 2025

    Overall, the MA delivered a capital benefit to Spanish lifers using it in 2024. But that was not always the case, for the capital requirements of most of its users

  • Moody's Ratings reveals volume of ERMs in large UK MA portfolios

    10 June 2025

    Total volume held was about 7% of total UK annuity investments in 2024, agency finds

  • Investment returns top €1bn from asset-intensive work at RGA's Irish unit

    04 June 2025

    Subsidiary's SFCRs since 2016 show its funded re investment results in isolation

  • SFCR 2025 - Lapse risk keeps pressure up on Italian lifers in 2024

    28 May 2025

    2023 may have been the peak of policyholders cashing in contracts early, but last year was not that much easier for Italian life insurers

  • Italy's lifers tackled lapse risk with action on investments in 2024

    28 May 2025

    SFCRs show range of ways life insurers sought to stem, or meet, surrenders last year

  • SFCR 2025 - French insurers win out from buying into alternatives in 2024

    22 May 2025

    Non-mainstream classes now make up to one-quarter of investment returns, some firms say

  • Axa's SFCR reveals details of €19bn in life policy surrender volumes for 2024

    20 May 2025

    Investment scenarios threaten French group's solvency the most, SFCR shows

  • Chart of the Week - European CFOs' ongoing appetite for private markets investments

    16 May 2025

    From infra to private credit and PE, CFOs' hunger shows little sign of abating

  • SFCRs 2025 - German lifers as Europe's hard-core 'non-core' investors

    08 May 2025

    Even after sleepy Bund yields staged a comeback, German life CIOs remain alive to rewards of alternative investments, their SFCRs show