Archive

  • National regulators tell EIOPA which assets they believe are riskiest for insurers

    03 May 2024

    EIOPA has concluded examination of Solvency II's prudent person principle

  • Comment: EIOPA fires its own starting gun on actually implementing Solvency II reform

    18 April 2024

    Small yet pivotal parts of SFCRs for non-UK firms have been amended, with significantly better transparency one result

  • Chart of the Week - How Europe's CIOs keep falling in love with the U-S-A

    08 March 2024

    The volume of US debt in Europe's general account has grown and grown

  • 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