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'Green' capital charges risk under-reserving for risk, actuaries told
30 May 2023Actuaries warn of "moving away from the strict actuarial approach" as climate change looms
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Chart of the Week - Solvency II ratios and general account debt holdings
26 May 2023As debt holdings devalued in 2022, so did insurers' Solvency II funds, and ratios
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Chart of the week - how Italian lifers use GAs for lapse risk
19 May 2023Italian SFCRs explain their liquidity planning, and its various methods, to meet a startling leap in lapse risk
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European lapses hit five-year high - but insurers trim cash and liquid assets
16 May 2023Median insurer's bank investments rose to 13.5% of assets in Q4, EIOPA finds
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Rates-induced corrosion hit govvies and credit in Europe's GA throughout 2022
15 May 2023Direct debt and credit holdings have contacted for eight quarters running
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The sun shines again on Spanish general accounts
08 May 2023As fixed income yields rise, Spanish insurers' CIOs may reflect happily on their 76% weighting to fixed interest interests - and smile again, David Walker writes
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Danish supervisor spells out national stress tests
27 April 2023Market scenarios more severe than those presented in some SFCRs
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Comment: What's in a name? How investors are a 'proxy-SCR' for insurers' reputation risk
27 March 2023Reputations contain much value quickly lost, especially in the financial sector reliant on trust
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Large UK local sovereign / premium mismatch unearthed by BIS
01 March 2023Across EEA 51% of sovereigns in GAs are local, EIOPA data shows
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Chart of the Week - Russia's insurers, one year on...
24 February 2023Insurers in Russia face a regulatory and investment landscape that would be hardly recognisable from pre-war times