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

  • APAC Weekly - Japan's insurers may not 'roar' in overseas M&A deals, but increasingly they want the lion's share

    24 March 2025

    It would be misplaced to say the Japanese want back-row seats in global expansion

  • 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

  • Consortium of insurers and asset managers acquire Viridium

    20 March 2025

    Hanover Re is joined by Allianz and BlackRock

  • Will infrastructure become Europe's 'capital-lite' investment for insurers?

    12 March 2025

    Europe's insurers are ever so politely taking issue with Donald Trump's vow to 'drill, baby, drill'

  • German reinsurers report investment results north of €1bn in H1

    12 August 2024

    With moderate growth expected for the second half of the year

  • Schroders Capital launches tool to enhance insurance-linked securities

    04 July 2024

    New blockchain platform designed with Hannover Re

  • Hannover Re Q1 return on investment beats full-year target of 2.8%

    14 May 2024

    Fixed income supports investment reaching "substantially higher" levels than previous year

  • Reinsurers' solvency ratios benefit from rising interest rates, Moody's says

    31 August 2023

    Rates hikes in 2022 good for European reinsurers investment returns and solvency ratios, but rates trajectory in 2023 unclear

  • Chart of the Week: Will insurers join an 'orderly queue', outside Silicon Valley Bank?

    17 March 2023

    From Silicon Valley Bank to Signature Bank, Silvergate to Credit Suisse, all eyes are on financials exposure