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Zurich's German life backbook deal, with €21bn assets, with Virdium falls apart
30 January 2024'Project Sander' was to involve investment assets linked to 724,000 policies, German unit's SFCR said
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Finance for Biodiversity Foundation launches framework for nature-related investment portfolio targets
04 December 2023Framework aims to guide creation of biodiversity-related transition and alignment plans
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Chart of the Week - 'Build it and they will come' - German insurers and Spezialfonds
18 August 2023Since 2009 German institutions made 3.9% in their Spezialfonds - and expanded allocations by 167%
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Comment: Athora deputy CEO on weathering the storm
16 August 2023Michele Bareggi, president & deputy CEO at Athora Group, explains why investing in private markets combined with a robust investment risk framework is the key to weather the volatility storm
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German lifers reveal liquid GAs as lapse risk rises
10 May 2023BaFin last week warned insurers to be vigilant about tackling surrender rates as interest rates increase
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Investment volatility and rising rates will keep lapse risk high in 2023, expect Italy's lifers
05 May 2023Latest solvency reports described ways they combatted surrender risk in 2022
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Attractive returns with policy guarantees "hardly possible" now in Germany, AXA Leben says
04 May 2023Life unit continues tilt toward investment and part-guaranteed products
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Athora Netherlands grows investment returns by €145m in 2022 despite own assets dropping €8.5bn
30 March 2023As a result of new strategy repositioning towards higher-yield assets
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Life stakeholders find reasons to sing and dance about back book deals
11 August 2022Those evaluating and otherwise benefitting from back book sales - including asset managers - tell David Walker they like what they see
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Pain relief - Sellers of life back books find their remedy
04 August 2022Life CIOs once yearned for back book sales to reduce their yield-pain. But might higher interest rates do the same job, David Walker asks