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COTW: Getting out early - UK insurers wax lyrical on 'the trials of life', in lapse risk
12 September 2025Sector did not speak as much about keeping GAs liquid to counter lapse risk, in 2024 SFCRs
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Europe's reinsurers achieve record ROE in H1, investments support operating profits, Fitch finds
21 August 2025While highlighting US dollar currency risk and crystallised losses on bond portfolios
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Hannover Re realised between €60 and €70m losses on bond portfolio in H1
14 August 2025Contributing to lower investment result than same period in 2024, contrasting with the rest of Talanx group's results
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Comment - T&D Holdings spends $100m on FWD stake, adding to Viridium and Fortitude Re holdings
26 June 2025Acquisitive Japanese group is expanding its burgeoning global strategic portfolio
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Viridium hails change in ownership as "very good news for our clients"
03 June 2025Change in ownership hoped to be completed by December
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Chart of the Week - Why Germany's 'silent life book run-off' could be a rainmaker for BlackRock
04 April 2025Fitch estimates €100bn of German life books still up for consolidation
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APAC Weekly - Japan's insurers may not 'roar' in overseas M&A deals, but increasingly they want the lion's share
24 March 2025It would be misplaced to say the Japanese want back-row seats in global expansion
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A 'Happy Future' for Viridium and its new owners including BlackRock?
20 March 2025Cinven is selling out of German life consolidator to insurers and manager, in €3.5bn deal
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Consortium of insurers and asset managers acquire Viridium
20 March 2025Hanover Re is joined by Allianz and BlackRock
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Will infrastructure become Europe's 'capital-lite' investment for insurers?
12 March 2025Europe's insurers are ever so politely taking issue with Donald Trump's vow to 'drill, baby, drill'