Archive

  • Chart of the Week - Do European lifers' liquid assets cover their recent policy lapses?

    04 October 2024

    We examine GA and UL/IL asset volumes in light of inaugural data on life policy lapses in 2023

  • Chart of the Week - Are PE owners stripping capital out of Bermudian re/insurers they own?

    20 September 2024

    Any insurance regulator's concern is an owner who takes more than it gives, in capital terms

  • EIOPA dashboard paints picture of stable market, with pockets of vulnerability

    01 August 2024

    Real estate market still a cause for concern

  • Europe's insurers near peak GA exposure to borrowers in Washington DC

    25 July 2024

    Direct holdings of US central government debt in 2023 were rarely higher since 2017

  • Italians ranked only eighth in EEA, for home bias in sovereign investing

    05 July 2024

    Spain and Sweden among nations with higher weighting in domestic debt, EIOPA finds

  • About half Europe's insurers now hold private credit and debt, EIOPA finds

    04 July 2024

    Financial Stability Report sounds warning over risks, and alternatives allocations by industry

  • EIOPA warns against 'regulatory arbitrage' in captive cash pooling

    03 July 2024

    Authority issued a letter of opinion yesterday

  • Europe's insurers prefer covering crypto-asset investors, to joining them

    03 July 2024

    EIOPA's mid-year Financial Stability Report reveals instruments CIOs use to get investment exposure

  • EIOPA reveals extent of property price hits in insurers' portfolios in 2023

    02 July 2024

    Financial Stability Report urges "close monitoring" of industry's CRE exposures

  • As France votes, EIOPA reveals how insurers, and regulators, voted about 'geopolitical risk'

    01 July 2024

    Mid-year Financial Stability report notes geopolitics' threat to GA, lapse rates and premium income