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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
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Solvency of Zurich's German transfer insurer softens despite investment de-risking
07 May 2025Zurich Legacy Life detailed its risk-taking in its latest SFCR
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Axa's German life policy transfer unit saw market risk double in 2024
06 May 2025But Ager Leben reduced its €1.6bn Zinszusatzreserve
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Chart of the Week - Why Germany's 'silent life book run-off' could be a rainmaker for BlackRock
04 April 2025Fitch estimates €100bn of German life books still up for consolidation
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Fitch predicts boost for Viridium's asset management arm from BlackRock deal
04 April 2025Asset manager is in consortium buying Cinven out of life consolidator
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A 'Happy Future' for Viridium and its new owners including BlackRock?
20 March 2025Cinven is selling out of German life consolidator to insurers and manager, in €3.5bn deal
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Private credit, insurance now make up over half Blackstone, Apollo, KKR and Carlyle portfolio, says Moody's
22 January 2025A decade ago, these classes were just one-third of those alternative managers' businesses
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The thorny regulatory issue of PE and Bermudian re/insurers
23 September 2024The BMA has its sights set on parent-originated illiquid investments in the GAs of Bermuda's underwriters
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Chart of the Week - Are PE owners stripping capital out of Bermudian re/insurers they own?
20 September 2024Any insurance regulator's concern is an owner who takes more than it gives, in capital terms
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InEvo Re appoints chief investment officer
08 August 2024Athora's head of financial risk, Luke Youlden, takes up the role