Archive

  • DAV leaves option to back compulsory German natcat insurance with GA attached

    09 July 2025

    At present cover is only optional

  • IAR Asia 2025 round up: No complaints albeit negative outlook

    24 June 2025

    Asia a good place to be, as US exceptionalism wavers

  • Chart of the Week - DAV considers the best pension system, as Germany's demographic pyramid develops a 'bulging midriff'

    06 June 2025

    Rigid rules and immutable guarantees could do Germany a disservice, DAV suggests

  • M&G Investments launches China fund

    12 September 2024

    Vehicle aimed at taking advantage of low Chinese equity valuations

  • Kindley Re reveals seeking approval to use Bermuda's SBA

    02 August 2024

    Reinsurer's ultimate owners are affiliates linked to US alts manager Davidson Kempner Capital Management

  • Frank Grund switches from supervising German insurers, to rating them

    22 May 2024

    Former BaFin insurance supervisor has joined Assekuranz committee

  • DAV's Schiller puzzled by some EC proposals in Solvency II review

    18 November 2021

    German actuaries tell David Walker of potential dissonance in different pronouncements that the EC has made about insurers' capital, including for 'green' investments, in its reform proposals for Solvency II

  • COMMENT: The rumble in the Solvency II jungle

    14 May 2021

    BaFin and the European Commission go 'head to head', very politely

  • Allianz: Insurers don't crave extra incentives to invest sustainably

    14 May 2021

    Solvency II review should focus on keeping the industry healthy

  • No yield, too few bunds - what investment trials mean for 2020 Review

    03 April 2020

    Frank Schiller, board member of the DAV, tells David Walker in a far ranging interview his thoughts on the 2020 Solvency II review and where he believes EIOPA needs to step up its work.