Archive

  • Comment - Where to now for Cronos Vita's 112 outsourcing partners?

    04 March 2026

    The now-shuttered Italian life insurer was the lifeboat for Eurovita's business

  • Unipol reveals CSM benefit from integrating Eurovita's remains

    24 February 2026

    Group's overall life guarantee fell to 0.68%, from 0.75% last year

  • Comment: Will Europe's regulators ultimately 'eavesdrop' on PE meetings about insurance M&A?

    04 February 2026

    EIOPA has laid out suggestions for supervising PE-led M&A of Europe's insurers

  • A 'Happy Future' for Viridium and its new owners including BlackRock?

    20 March 2025

    Cinven is selling out of German life consolidator to insurers and manager, in €3.5bn deal

  • St James' Place adds US managers to outsourcing roster in 2024

    10 March 2025

    Wealth manager has already hired Schroders, and RLAM, so far this year

  • Comment - Lapse risk, SFCRs and getting more transparency into Italian insurers

    22 April 2024

    Nine data cells reveal the stress that sent one prominent lifer to the wall

  • Rescuers of Eurovita divulge details of IVASS' bail-out plan in SFCRs

    22 April 2024

    Lifer faced redemption and solvency pressure before rivals took on assets, and policies

  • Chart of the Week - How IMAs could spell out the future of PE ownership of insurers

    23 February 2024

    Fee rates, and other T&Cs in the IMAs of PE houses and the consolidators they own, may attract (unwanted) regulatory attention

  • Chart of the Week - As a €21bn deal is scuppered by BaFin, have PE owners run out of road for life book sales?

    02 February 2024

    German regulator's refusal to Zurich and Viridium seems bad news for insurers owned by PE

  • Zurich's German life backbook deal, with €21bn assets, with Virdium falls apart

    30 January 2024

    'Project Sander' was to involve investment assets linked to 724,000 policies, German unit's SFCR said