Archive

• 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

• The sun shines again on Spanish general accounts

  08 May 2023

  As fixed income yields rise, Spanish insurers' CIOs may reflect happily on their 76% weighting to fixed interest interests - and smile again, David Walker writes

• European lifers' liquidity risk manageable as surrender rates rise

  04 May 2023

  Fitch says sources of liquid funds and good ALM will protect sector

• Comment - Time for Europe's lifers to 'talk tough' with their governments?

  04 May 2023

  Knowlingly or not, some of Europe's governments now have sovereigns able to compete with life policy promises

• Chart of the Week - When the MA goes 'the wrong way' for Spanish lifers

  28 April 2023

  Ideally the MA, with life liabilities backed by predictable income assets, should improve users' capital coverage. Often, that's not been so in Spain.

• ANIA announces final closing of infrastructure fund at €516m

  24 May 2022

  With most of the main domestic insurers taking part in the funding

• BTPs - the love affair Italian CIOs can't quite let go of...

  16 September 2021

  Italians love their domestic government bonds, and although regulators beg for diversification, CIOs are in no rush to let go. Abbie Wood reports

• Italy's insurers rack up paper gains as debt markets recover

  21 August 2020

  Most of €62bn of uncrystallised investment gains at life firms

• ANIA president highlights role of insurers in COVID-19 recovery

  03 July 2020

  Investment in digital and green infra a priority, Farina says

• Italian insurance association buys rail operator

  22 April 2020

  Investment tagged as ESG friendly in the context of COVID-19 crisis