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  • EIOPA greenwashing report calls for credible plans to achieve net zero goals

    07 June 2023

    And casts spotlight on insufficient sustainability-linked shareholder engagement

  • 'Green' capital charges risk under-reserving for risk, actuaries told

    30 May 2023

    Actuaries warn of "moving away from the strict actuarial approach" as climate change looms

  • Chart of the Week - Solvency II ratios and general account debt holdings

    26 May 2023

    As debt holdings devalued in 2022, so did insurers' Solvency II funds, and ratios

  • Chart of the week - how Italian lifers use GAs for lapse risk

    19 May 2023

    Italian SFCRs explain their liquidity planning, and its various methods, to meet a startling leap in lapse risk

  • European lapses hit five-year high - but insurers trim cash and liquid assets

    16 May 2023

    Median insurer's bank investments rose to 13.5% of assets in Q4, EIOPA finds

  • Rates-induced corrosion hit govvies and credit in Europe's GA throughout 2022

    15 May 2023

    Direct debt and credit holdings have contacted for eight quarters running

  • The sun shines again on Spanish general accounts

    08 May 2023

    As fixed income yields rise, Spanish insurers' CIOs may reflect happily on their 76% weighting to fixed interest interests - and smile again, David Walker writes

  • Danish supervisor spells out national stress tests

    27 April 2023

    Market scenarios more severe than those presented in some SFCRs

  • Comment: What's in a name? How investors are a 'proxy-SCR' for insurers' reputation risk

    27 March 2023

    Reputations contain much value quickly lost, especially in the financial sector reliant on trust

  • Large UK local sovereign / premium mismatch unearthed by BIS

    01 March 2023

    Across EEA 51% of sovereigns in GAs are local, EIOPA data shows

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