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Mirova signs three new catalytic investors to Sustainable Land Use strategy
30 October 2025DEFRA, Global Affairs Canada and The Coca-Cola Foundation join second vintage, which has raised €100m
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Solvency of Zurich's German transfer insurer softens despite investment de-risking
07 May 2025Zurich Legacy Life detailed its risk-taking in its latest SFCR
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Axa's German life policy transfer unit saw market risk double in 2024
06 May 2025But Ager Leben reduced its €1.6bn Zinszusatzreserve
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Comment - What future for PE-backed life book consolidators as AXA and Athora ditch transfer plans?
07 May 2024Ending it was consensual, but BaFin was surely in the deal-partners' thoughts
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SFCRs shine light on German legacy life books, and investments, of Zurich and AXA
16 April 2024Groups have planned, with mixed success, to sell the back-books to consolidators Viridium and Athora, respectively
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Chart of the Week - Breakdown of market risk SCR of AEMA group subsidiaries, 2022 (%)
28 July 2023A 'group market risk SCR' can mask very divergent risk-taking at subsidiaries
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The sun shines again on Spanish general accounts
08 May 2023As fixed income yields rise, Spanish insurers' CIOs may reflect happily on their 76% weighting to fixed interest interests - and smile again, David Walker writes
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Bolting for the door - could 'mass lapse' risk trigger 'mass bond sales' at French lifers?
04 May 2023Better interest rates mean better investment options than life policies. As France's exposed lifers watch on, some count up their liquid assets, some count on customer loyalty - but will all ultimately count on CIOs, to sell off GAs? David Walker reports
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Chart of the Week: Solvency capital charges, and what a cactus and CIO (should) have in common
10 March 2023Average Solvency II capital charges by insurers' GA sizes reveal some unexpected findings