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COTW - How outsourcing (and other GA) expenses landed Europe's insurers with a €67bn bill
03 October 2025IM expenses are at eight-year peaks, with German and French CIOs paying (un)comfortably the most
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Chart of the Week - Calling all foreign-FX investments! (as cross-border GWP data reveals demand)
19 September 2025Eiopa figures for cross-border premiums suggests a healthy market for Solvency II insurers going 'abroad'
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Chart of the Week - The unstoppable rise of insurers buying PE, infra and alts
05 September 2025Fund-based infrastructure investing in insurers' GAs has boomed by 344% since late 2017
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European Commission's rumoured SII capital relief - credit negative, Moody's warns
20 August 2025The rating agency also questioned whether the proposal would have the desired effect of channelling investments to specific parts of the economy
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SFCR 2025 - How private assets are 'having a moment' with Benelux CIOs
03 July 2025Solvency filings of Benelux insurers show a distinct liking among CIOs for directly-originated asset classes
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30% of European insurers' corporate bonds and equities exposed to biodiversity risks, EIOPA finds
02 July 2025Report analysis says almost a third of €2.3trn investments highly depend on at least one ecosystem service
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EIOPA maps out corporate bond investments concentrations in €1.5trn pot
23 June 2025Authority examined direct holdings data for 1,246 undertakings in 2024
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APAC Weekly: Is Australia edging towards a matching adjustment?
17 June 2025Reforms to the illiquidity premium that APRA proposes for annuity writers echoes elements of MAs, near and far
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SFCR 2025 - The matching adjustment misfired, again, in Spain in 2024
13 June 2025Overall, the MA delivered a capital benefit to Spanish lifers using it in 2024. But that was not always the case, for the capital requirements of most of its users
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Resist urge to politicise finance, Munich Re says in response to "Europe first" calls
09 June 2025Despite increasing levels of economic nationalism in the US