Archive

  • Chinese asset volumes near RMB25trn after 12% growth

    15 February 2022

    Extent of SME financing in pandemic revealed by CBIRC

  • Debt and credit cut again in European GAs in Q3 2021, equities and funds expand

    04 February 2022

    Only 3% of assets are heavily exposed to climate change's effects, Eiopa finds

  • Investment expense rates revealed for Europe's insurers

    03 February 2022

    Analysis by Insurance Risk Data unearths investment costs to run insurers' general accounts

  • Insurance Europe rebuffs EIOPA on run-off investing

    22 October 2021

    EIOPA argued private financiers boosted investment risk-taking

  • EIOPA reiterates "disappointment" at EC's different paths in Solvency II review

    19 October 2021

    But Authority acknowledges having "different stakeholders" to Commission's

  • EIOPA unsurprised at EC request on green charges

    19 October 2021

    IAR EMEA: Aviva calls debate on 'green' and 'brown' charges potential "red herring"

  • EIOPA cautions insurers on COVID stress-tests in ORSAs

    20 July 2021

    AIG, Athora and Ergo Reise among insurers revealing COVID stress tests

  • Greek insurers bemoan low yields on once-tragic local debt

    28 June 2021

    One CIO liquidated a bond originally designed to bail Greece out, for its negative yield to maturity

  • The real deal - Europe's insurers primed for G7 infrastructure plan

    14 June 2021

    Leaders of the 'G7' economies announced the 'Build Back Better World' global infrastructure programme, a 'step-change' in their approach to 'mobilise private-sector capital' for the asset class as never before. Europe's insurers stand ready to help, David Walker reports.

  • EM infrastructure debt is good - but reg's nuts and bolts need more work

    19 May 2021

    Insurers can't get enough of infrastructure, for both duration and yield. But make it tradeable, standardise its terms and improve creditor rights, and the purse strings would really come loose, as David Walker finds out.