Archive

• 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

• Chart of the Week - Russia's insurers, one year on...

  24 February 2023

  Insurers in Russia face a regulatory and investment landscape that would be hardly recognisable from pre-war times

• Chart of the Week - Equities, a falling part of Germany's unit-linked industry?

  17 February 2023

  Germany's unit-linked equity funds suffer first consecutive falls in volume

• Use of hedging derivatives in Europe hits multi-year high, EIOPA finds

  09 February 2023

  Authority ascribes peak figure since at least 2020 to interest rate hedging

• Comment: Time to rethink Solvency II and capital charging 'liquidity risk'?

  07 February 2023

  Is a different capital charge justified if a fund's redemption terms prevent one insurer encashing its investments compared to a directly-invested rival?

• Chart of the Week - Post-Brexit UK attracts under 3% of Europe's GA

  03 February 2023

  EIOPA reveals direct UK exposure of EEA insurers' GAs at second lowest point since Q4 2017

• Chart of the Week - EIOPA puts unit-linked returns and costs under spotlight

  20 January 2023

  EIOPA reveals which countries' UL had the highest returns, volatility, and fees

• CIOs prepare for 'symmetric warfare' over listed shareholdings

  18 January 2023

  Europe's regulators are discussing almost doubling how far they allow the equities 'symmetric adjustment' to fluctuate. David Walker examines the implications for CIOs' capital consumption

• ESG unit-linked outperforms standard unit-linked products by 2%, and cost less

  18 January 2023

  EIOPA study examined unit-linked, with-profits and hybrid products' 2021 performance