Archive

  • COTW - How outsourcing (and other GA) expenses landed Europe's insurers with a €67bn bill

    03 October 2025

    IM expenses are at eight-year peaks, with German and French CIOs paying (un)comfortably the most

  • Chart of the Week - Calling all foreign-FX investments! (as cross-border GWP data reveals demand)

    19 September 2025

    Eiopa figures for cross-border premiums suggests a healthy market for Solvency II insurers going 'abroad'

  • Chart of the Week - The unstoppable rise of insurers buying PE, infra and alts

    05 September 2025

    Fund-based infrastructure investing in insurers' GAs has boomed by 344% since late 2017

  • European Commission's rumoured SII capital relief - credit negative, Moody's warns

    20 August 2025

    The rating agency also questioned whether the proposal would have the desired effect of channelling investments to specific parts of the economy

  • SFCR 2025 - How private assets are 'having a moment' with Benelux CIOs

    03 July 2025

    Solvency filings of Benelux insurers show a distinct liking among CIOs for directly-originated asset classes

  • 30% of European insurers' corporate bonds and equities exposed to biodiversity risks, EIOPA finds

    02 July 2025

    Report analysis says almost a third of €2.3trn investments highly depend on at least one ecosystem service

  • EIOPA maps out corporate bond investments concentrations in €1.5trn pot

    23 June 2025

    Authority examined direct holdings data for 1,246 undertakings in 2024

  • APAC Weekly: Is Australia edging towards a matching adjustment?

    17 June 2025

    Reforms to the illiquidity premium that APRA proposes for annuity writers echoes elements of MAs, near and far

  • SFCR 2025 - The matching adjustment misfired, again, in Spain in 2024

    13 June 2025

    Overall, 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

  • Resist urge to politicise finance, Munich Re says in response to "Europe first" calls

    09 June 2025

    Despite increasing levels of economic nationalism in the US