Archive

• Comment - Are PE owners facing the end of their life backbook consolidation journey?

  31 January 2024

  After BaFin's move on Zurich and Viridium, the future seems uncertain if 'PE ownership' breaks deals

• 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

• Comment - Eurovita has had a 'patient capital' shareholder. Shame about its policyholders

  03 July 2023

  Five insurers, and banks, are organising a rescue deal for their stricken Italian peer and the policyholders that remain

• The pain in Spain

  11 May 2022

  MedVida offers remedy to low yields and high life-book promises as it aims to be 'cornerstone consolidator' in Spanish market, David Walker reports.

• Viridium sells German real estate to buy "stable" assets

  30 September 2019

  Commerz Real acquires portfolio of 49 city-centre assets from insurer

• Investment challenges arising from shifting insurance business models

  26 June 2019

  At Insurance Asset Risk EMEA 2019 conference European insurers discuss as part of a panel the shifts in insurance business models and the ramification for investments strategies. In this first part of a two-part series, they discuss the ongoing consolidation in the market. Compiled by David Walker

• Generali affiliate seals five-year deal for German life unit

  05 July 2018

  Generali Investments Europe to earn €275m from Generali Leben assets

• Alternatives and dividends boost Swiss Re investment returns

  04 November 2016

  But running investment yield extends uninterrupted fall