Archive

• Chart of the Week - Why Germany's 'silent life book run-off' could be a rainmaker for BlackRock

  04 April 2025

  Fitch estimates €100bn of German life books still up for consolidation

• Fitch predicts boost for Viridium's asset management arm from BlackRock deal

  04 April 2025

  Asset manager is in consortium buying Cinven out of life consolidator

• Frankfurter Leben CIO joins HQ Trust

  19 June 2024

  The head of investments at Sparkassenversicherung is to replace him in the Autumn

• German insurers had about two-thirds of basic capital requirement in market risk in 2023

  13 June 2024

  New analysis examined solvency data of 178 German firms on standard formula

• Frankfurter Leben reveals further dive into private markets in 2023

  13 June 2024

  Private and real estate debt, as well as infrastructure equity, got additional injections from consolidator last year

• Interest reserve unwind continues at German life insurers as rates rose in 2023

  31 May 2024

  Some life firms had to sell down assets in previous years to fund the ZZR

• German life consolidators reveal lapse and liquidity risk details in latest SFCRs

  08 May 2024

  All life undertakings discussed experiences, mitigations and examinations of surrenders, in 2023

• Comment - What future for PE-backed life book consolidators as AXA and Athora ditch transfer plans?

  07 May 2024

  Ending it was consensual, but BaFin was surely in the deal-partners' thoughts

• Comment - Are PE owners facing the end of their life backbook consolidation journey?

  31 January 2024

  After BaFin's move on Zurich and Viridium, the future seems uncertain if 'PE ownership' breaks deals

• Chart of the Week - 'Build it and they will come' - German insurers and Spezialfonds

  18 August 2023

  Since 2009 German institutions made 3.9% in their Spezialfonds - and expanded allocations by 167%