Archive

• Viridium hails change in ownership as "very good news for our clients"

  03 June 2025

  Change in ownership hoped to be completed by December

• Solvency of Zurich's German transfer insurer softens despite investment de-risking

  07 May 2025

  Zurich Legacy Life detailed its risk-taking in its latest SFCR

• Axa's German life policy transfer unit saw market risk double in 2024

  06 May 2025

  But Ager Leben reduced its €1.6bn Zinszusatzreserve

• 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

• A Lasting legacy - How Medvida is still helping Spanish lifers shed unwanted backbooks

  26 June 2024

  Life consolidation and backbook deals may have hit hurdles in Germany, but in Spain Antonio Trueba, CEO of consolidator Medvida Partners paints a different picture