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Chart of the Week - How IMAs could spell out the future of PE ownership of insurers
23 February 2024Fee rates, and other T&Cs in the IMAs of PE houses and the consolidators they own, may attract (unwanted) regulatory attention
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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 2024German regulator's refusal to Zurich and Viridium seems bad news for insurers owned by PE
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Fitch expects UK lifers will share more cash income with policyholders after FCA warning
18 January 2024UK FCA has treating customers fairly in its sights
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Comment - BTPs remain the 'dagger to the heart' of Italian CIOs
05 January 2024Life CIOs have scythed local debt exposures, but Ivass data shows the wild ride they still underwent in 2021/2022
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Ivass reveals Italian lifers' sharp swings from fixed income gain to loss - and not just from their BTPs
03 January 2024Local debt generated €35.5bn gross gains in 2021, then plunged to €27.6bn losses
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IVASS admits Eurovita rescue talks were "long, and not easy"
25 July 2023Rescuers "acted in awareness of their own interest", IVASS president says
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Chart of the Week - Eurovita's general account over time, % (2017-2021)
07 July 2023SFCRs show the Italian lifer being rescued by five peers, and banks, shunned risk - including heavy BTP weightings - in its GA
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Comment - Italians' famed civility might be sorely tested, by Eurovita's gating
06 July 2023IVASS has locked policyholders in until November
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Comment - Eurovita has had a 'patient capital' shareholder. Shame about its policyholders
03 July 2023Five insurers, and banks, are organising a rescue deal for their stricken Italian peer and the policyholders that remain
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Eurovita revealed as prolific outsourcer with over 150 managers onboard
19 June 2023IVASS suspended redemptions of Italian's policies in Q1