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German life CIOs breath out, as the 'great ZZR unwind' begins
19 April 2023In past years, German lifers dispatched CIOs to raise cash to pay into their ZZRs - like it, or not. But that reversed, and sometimes heftily, as interest rates rose in 2022. David Walker reports
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Comment - Russian CIOs confront their own 2032 'transitional measure'
22 February 2023Bank of Russia's GA write-down warnings put Frank Grund's words in Germany in the pale
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Comment - Did the Deutsche Reichsbürger have a functioning general account?
16 December 2022The German extremists had been running insurance, so presumably a 'GA' existed, somewhere
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Only one-quarter of German insurers use climate scenarios and stress-tests
05 December 2022BaFin warns underwriters model/data hurdles should not hinder their engagement with the risk
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Chart of the Week - Central bankers raise rates, hopes and ratios among Europe's insurers
02 September 2022At last, an insurer's stress test for rising interest rates actually 'means something'
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German insurers buying "less attractive, less profitable" infrastructure as demand beats supply
21 June 2022BaFin says outsourcing important as insurers can "hardly provide necessary specialist knowledge" for some projects
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German regulator "intensively supervising" 20 life firms
06 May 2022Low yields and high promises the reason, BaFin chief says
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Talanx reports 11% investment income increase
14 March 2022Due to gains from alternative investments and inflation-linked bonds
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BaFin warns insurers using derivatives more to boost returns
21 February 2022Insurers hedging FX risk mainly for US dollars, sterling and Danish kronor
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Investment management expenses of Europe's insurers revealed
17 January 2022Data reveals which industries paid the most for GA investing annually since 2017