Archive

  • Investors reveal how Solvency II reform could change views on UK insurers' bonds

    05 February 2024

    While EIOPA reveals how investors view European underwriters' bonds and equities

  • Govvies at second lowest ebb since 2017 in Europe's GA

    19 January 2024

    Europe's GA is 14% off its long-term peak, EIOPA data shows

  • Chart of the Week - Liz Truss breathes easy, as Rishi Sunak takes the reins of UK political investment risk

    12 January 2024

    CIOs go 'risk-on' for 'other' category sovereigns, as elections loom in 64 nations behind 40% of global GDP, in 2024

  • Chart of the New Year - Where Europe's CIOs choose to invest GAs in funds

    05 January 2024

    If you want to launch a fund for a European GA, you could do worse than using Germany, France or Luxembourg...

  • Solvency II reforms fail to embed double materiality, ShareAction says

    28 December 2023

    Final political trilogue establishing the shape of Solvency II are a reversion to single materiality, Caroline Metz says, amidst a growing ESG backlash in Europe

  • Chart of the Week - Lapse risk hits European unit-linked business in 2023

    22 December 2023

    EIOPA sheds light on levels of lapse risk, and investment activity, for lifers' unit-linked policies since 2021

  • EIOPA proposes capital charges on fossil fuel assets

    15 December 2023

    Proposals are part of review of Solvency II mandate

  • Life insurers not turning away from alternative investments yet, EIOPA says

    12 December 2023

    Many had expected life insurers' "search for yield" would become less pronounced

  • Distilling complexity for CIOs' benefit

    06 November 2023

    Various pressures have come to bear on insurance CIOs in recent years - and not always because of mercurial investment markets. Schroders' Alberto Scarsini distils the challenges to find the basic elements

  • Chart of the week - Are insurers a worthwhile investment?

    04 August 2023

    Insurers themselves seem to think 'largely not', as relative stock performance proves variable