Archive

  • German backbook deals and run-offs - a €150bn asset industry since 2014

    01 February 2024

    Moody's examined 14 deals, completed, pending and scuttled

  • Nearly 2,000 European insurers have GAs smaller than in Zurich/Viridium's scuppered deal

    31 January 2024

    BaFin has stopped life backbook deal involving €21bn of assets

  • Predica investment income down 4.8% in 2020

    15 April 2021

    Nearly three of quarters of France's largest life insurer invested in bonds

  • Largest 50 EEA insurance investors in bonds held €2.2trn in 2018

    02 January 2020

    French insurers favour govvies while UK insurers focus on corporates

  • UK insurers: one big disappointment for private equity managers in 2018

    31 December 2019

    French insurers top rankings of equity investment volumes

  • Groupama and French bank take stakes in CAA’s renewables affiliate

    19 September 2019

    Development is second time Crédit Agricole Assurances partners with French bank for investing

  • French insurers’ solvency vulnerable through exposure to parent banks

    26 July 2019

    Exposure can reach more than 50% of insurers’ capital, IMF warns

  • How regulatory data can unlock the door to competitive advantage

    26 June 2018

    The data in Solvency II quantitative reporting templates can be used to gain insight and edge, David Walker reports.