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SFCR season: How equity hedges helped some, but not all, Scandinavian insurers in 2025
07 May 2026The timing, structure and extent of downside protection has featured in SFCRs of many Scandinavian insurers
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SFCR season: The UK matching adjustment's heavyweights and their investment portfolios
30 April 2026Last year capped off a successful opening decade for the matching adjustment, helping its UK users save a whopping £720.6bn worth of regulatory capital. David Walker examines how they did it
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Comment: How to lie to your GP...and spend a market SCR on jogging shoes
29 August 2025Non-life claims cost inflation is nothing, compared to Australia's 'plimsoll-cost inflation'
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Insurance Asset Risk's (unofficial) SFCR awards for best investment details
18 August 2025Honouring the exemplary solvency filings from insurers this year
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SFCR 2025 - France's CIOs return to 'core values' as fixed income shines
13 August 2025Alts are a delightful amuse-bouche - but Europe's largest industry still feeds up on its OATs
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SFCR 2025 - Northern exposure is not all about general account equities
09 July 2025Scandinavian and Nordic insurers find voice in SFCRs to sing praises for their alternative holdings. David Walker listened in
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From major regulators to major ratings agencies, funded re causes concern
07 July 2025From the UK to Japan to the rest of Asia, funded re rings warning bells at regulators and ratings agencies, and leading large lifers and their asset managers are treading carefully
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SFCR 2025 - How private assets are 'having a moment' with Benelux CIOs
03 July 2025Solvency filings of Benelux insurers show a distinct liking among CIOs for directly-originated asset classes
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SFCR 2025 - The matching adjustment misfired, again, in Spain in 2024
13 June 2025Overall, 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
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SFCR 2025 - Lapse risk keeps pressure up on Italian lifers in 2024
28 May 20252023 may have been the peak of policyholders cashing in contracts early, but last year was not that much easier for Italian life insurers