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Greek insurers bemoan low yields on once-tragic local debt
28 June 2021One CIO liquidated a bond originally designed to bail Greece out, for its negative yield to maturity
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German travel insurers find 2020 anything but plain sailing
15 June 2021Dividend cuts and low yields do the damage
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MEAG reorganizes public markets team
23 February 2021Affiliate under pressure from parent, Insurance Asset Risk understands
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Ergo and Wüstenrot announce cooperation in real estate financing
01 December 2020Ten-year partnership to be expanded from spring 2021
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"We decided we were going to see equity positions through the crisis," Ergo's Fiedler says
20 October 2020IAR 2020 EMEA: Ergo group head of SAA says credit was more worrying when virus broke out
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Mortgages - safe as houses, or 'waiving' goodbye to repayment returns?
27 July 2020Home loans have proved popular with Europe's insurers, to the tune of €237bn invested in 2019, but that was in the good times. As many underwriters holding them are forced to delay collecting repayments amid COVID-19, some are re-running stress tests on their portfolios, David Walker finds
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Munich Re unit to buy into Chinese insurer
09 June 2020Marks subsidiary's entry into Chinese non-life market
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Fitch demotes outlook on units of R+V, Condor, Stuttgarter
19 May 2020Further rates falls endanger ability to cover guarantees with investments, agency says
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MEAG raises €660m for infrastructure fund
31 July 2019Prolonged period of low interest rates has driven insurer and pension interest in the MEAG Infrastructure Debt Fund
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Regulators' role in preventing greenwashing
04 July 2019The French regulator's director for research and risk analysis Laurent Clerc explains the difficulty of acting on the climate change imperative and the challenges for the regulator to monitor 'greenwashing'. Interview by Vincent Huck