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  • Charts of the Year - How 2024 looked, in twelve charts

    13 December 2024

    It was never a dull moment in 2024, including for our Chart of the Week column. This week we provide 12 new charts, which we feel summarise the 'key points' from the year just gone.

  • Chart of the Week - Lapse risk and where it emerged in Italy

    06 December 2024

    IVASS asked lifers to "rethink" products after lapses hit 12-year peaks in 2023. We examine who might be thinking hardest

  • Chart of the Week - EIOPA spells out dangers of fossil fuel investments

    29 November 2024

    As well as suggesting capital surcharges for GHG-risk equities and bonds this month, EIOPA analysed the risks of keeping them in Gas

  • European insurers' ratings safe from EIOPA fossil surcharges, Fitch says

    21 November 2024

    Agency predicts proposed increase in capital requirements would affect firms' Solvency II ratios by less than 100bps

  • Chart of the Week - Japan's largest groups reveal GA changes after strategic equity sales

    15 November 2024

    All Japan's large non-life insurers are eliminating their long-term cross-holdings in other companies

  • Veni, vidi, vici (iterum, in Washington DC)

    08 November 2024

    The 'US election general account' of European insurers revealed

  • EIOPA recommends additional capital requirements for insurers' fossil fuel assets

    07 November 2024

    As part of its report on the prudential treatment of sustainability risks within Solvency II

  • EIOPA opens consultation on regulation for insurers' crypto holdings

    25 October 2024

    Pledges to revisit rules as market develops

  • Chart of the Week - Oh say, can you see...Just how much European CIOs want US fund managers

    25 October 2024

    March European insurers hit 'peak US funds' with €71bn allocation

  • Chart of the Week - Fixed income maturities at Bermuda's re/insurers

    11 October 2024

    Analysing the liquidity of Bermuda's re/insurers through contractual maturities patterns