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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
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Axa keeps distancing from market risks in 1H
03 August 2022Alternatives reinvestment yields still outpacing 'core' fixed income
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Comment - On your marks, s-e-e-t, go (sell more life backbooks)!
19 July 2022Jefferies analyst Philip Kett fires starting gun in possible race to sell life backbooks
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Axa IM wins outsourcing mandate from parent's €610m German life book deal
15 July 2022Deferred annuities and endowments had average guarantee of 3.2%
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Chart of the week - Axa's German life sale in Grand Investment Pivot
15 July 2022CEO, climate champion, oil-tanker captain, is there no job Thomas Buberl cannot do?
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Illiquids: time to partner up?
28 June 2022Angela Jung, Senior Director of Investment ALM Risk at Athora, outlined to Insurance Asset Risk's 2022 EMEA conference why insurers should be preparing to face valuation risk on their journey into illiquids, and how asset managers could be the key to getting it right. Abbie Wood reports