Archive

• Viridium hails change in ownership as "very good news for our clients"

  03 June 2025

  Change in ownership hoped to be completed by December

• BaFin warns of credit risks as private debt holdings approach 30% at some insurers

  16 May 2025

  German regulator plans focus on firms with heavy alternatives block, in 2025

• Chart of the Week - European CFOs' ongoing appetite for private markets investments

  16 May 2025

  From infra to private credit and PE, CFOs' hunger shows little sign of abating

• Solvency of Zurich's German transfer insurer softens despite investment de-risking

  07 May 2025

  Zurich Legacy Life detailed its risk-taking in its latest SFCR

• Chart of the Week - Why Germany's 'silent life book run-off' could be a rainmaker for BlackRock

  04 April 2025

  Fitch estimates €100bn of German life books still up for consolidation

• Fitch predicts boost for Viridium's asset management arm from BlackRock deal

  04 April 2025

  Asset manager is in consortium buying Cinven out of life consolidator

• A 'Happy Future' for Viridium and its new owners including BlackRock?

  20 March 2025

  Cinven is selling out of German life consolidator to insurers and manager, in €3.5bn deal

• German lifers' ratings unaffected by TMTP recalculations, Fitch says

  08 November 2024

  But warns declining bond yields could put some life insurers' capital under pressure again

• BaFin warns of concerning early-year lapse rates in some savings products

  28 August 2024

  German regulator notes how front-loading of policy costs can hit policyholders leaving early

• A Lasting legacy - How Medvida is still helping Spanish lifers shed unwanted backbooks

  26 June 2024

  Life consolidation and backbook deals may have hit hurdles in Germany, but in Spain Antonio Trueba, CEO of consolidator Medvida Partners paints a different picture