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

• Fitch predicts boost for Viridium's asset management arm from BlackRock deal

  04 April 2025

  Asset manager is in consortium buying Cinven out of life consolidator

• 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

• T&D Holdings to pay JPY 120bn as part of Viridium buyer consortium

  21 March 2025

  Japanese group will hold 29.9% of the life book consolidator if the deal is allowed

• 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

• APAC Weekly - How insurers' involvement with reinsurers is deepening, and broadening

  04 March 2025

  Not only a 'lifesaver' for APAC's CUOs, reinsurers are becoming targets for APAC CIOs

• Embattled Japan Post Insurance finds silver lining to sales-ban cloud

  17 February 2020

  Improving investments help insurer upgrade full-year guidance on income and ordinary profit

• Nomura wins ESG fund mandate from Japanese life insurer

  21 January 2020

  T&D Holdings adds to ethical investment programme with T&D Funds - Euro ESG Bond Fund

• Carlyle buys major stake in Fortitude Group from AIG

  26 November 2019

  Alternatives manager retains Fortitude’s outsourced investing