Archive

  • Chart of the Week - Round the World with SFCRs, how Groupe MAF's expects market SCR sub-modules to develop

    24 May 2024

    Transparency in the SFCR affords insight into risk planning and budgeting, and accuracy of SCR forecasting, out to 2027

  • Comment: Back, by popular demand! SFCR analysis season returns on IAR

    20 May 2024

    Solvency II for reports for solos and groups for 2023 are now under IAR's microscope

  • Round the World with SFCRs - Lapse risk endures in France as life clients spy 'greener grass'

    20 May 2024

    The risk of customers leaving early remains at French lifers, despite rates softening in 2023, keeping CIOs on alert

  • Time for duration?

    14 May 2024

    With money market funds peaking, what are the allocation implications for insurers?

  • Chart of the Week - A Eurovision of how insurers' general accounts are composed, by EEA country

    10 May 2024

    Significant diversity in allocations appears, across EIOPA's 30 national industries

  • German life consolidators reveal lapse and liquidity risk details in latest SFCRs

    08 May 2024

    All life undertakings discussed experiences, mitigations and examinations of surrenders, in 2023

  • French insurers emphasise liquid investing, as lapse risk keeps biting

    01 May 2024

    French insurers emphasise liquid investing, as lapse risk keeps biting

  • The other 'hiking' - Lloyd's syndicate CIOs trek further 'off the beaten path' for alternatives

    25 April 2024

    Yields on core fixed income may have improved with rate hikes of recent years, but some Lloyd's syndicate CIOs have ventured further from the well-trod path, searching for alternatives, as David Walker discovers

  • Rescuers of Eurovita divulge details of IVASS' bail-out plan in SFCRs

    22 April 2024

    Lifer faced redemption and solvency pressure before rivals took on assets, and policies

  • Chart of the Week - Uniform SCR-breakdown for IM users becomes possible, for non-UK Insurers, at least...

    19 April 2024

    A new EIOPA reporting template has made it possible to see uniform breakdown of IM and PIM users' Solvency II risk modules