Archive

  • SFCR season: How equity hedges helped some, but not all, Scandinavian insurers in 2025

    07 May 2026

    The timing, structure and extent of downside protection has featured in SFCRs of many Scandinavian insurers

  • Chart of the Week - How bad Trump needs to be, to make Danish insurers insolvent

    30 January 2026

    SFCRs give insight into what it takes for debt deterioration to drive solvency to 100%

  • Danish pension insurer dumps US sovereigns

    26 January 2026

    Not because of Greenland tension, but for "weak public finances" in US

  • Something rotten in the state of US debt - Danes 'dump Trump'

    26 January 2026

    Mercurial politics, Fed independence and sheer indebtedness all play roles for Danish and Swedish CIOs ditching US debt

  • SFCR 2025 - Northern exposure is not all about general account equities

    09 July 2025

    Scandinavian and Nordic insurers find voice in SFCRs to sing praises for their alternative holdings. David Walker listened in

  • 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"

  • 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

  • Northern exposure - equities bestow mixed blessings on Nordic/Scandinavian insurers in 2022

    15 May 2023

    Markets may have dived as rates, geopolitical tension and inflation rocketed, but Scandinavian and Nordic insurers' faith in equities was not always misplaced. David Walker reports

  • From Great Depression to Germany leaving the euro, Danes reveal what 'investment stress' really means

    27 April 2023

    Some SFCR stress tests outdo FSA's planned national testing

  • 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