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A Lasting legacy - How Medvida is still helping Spanish lifers shed unwanted backbooks
26 June 2024Life consolidation and backbook deals may have hit hurdles in Germany, but in Spain Antonio Trueba, CEO of consolidator Medvida Partners paints a different picture
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'Silent run-off' occurring in German life market, says Moody's
16 May 2024Backbook life deals denied and abandoned, have stolen the limelight recently
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German life consolidators reveal lapse and liquidity risk details in latest SFCRs
08 May 2024All life undertakings discussed experiences, mitigations and examinations of surrenders, in 2023
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Viridium adds to investment burden, by doubling guarantee for Generali Leben's policyholders
08 May 2024CEO Tilo Dresig addresses BaFin's stopping Viridium's planned back-book deal with Zurich
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Comment - What future for PE-backed life book consolidators as AXA and Athora ditch transfer plans?
07 May 2024Ending it was consensual, but BaFin was surely in the deal-partners' thoughts
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SFCRs shine light on German legacy life books, and investments, of Zurich and AXA
16 April 2024Groups have planned, with mixed success, to sell the back-books to consolidators Viridium and Athora, respectively
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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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Fitch says PE ownership not necessarily credit-negative for insurers
15 February 2024Ratings agency looks at insurers' investment strategy riskiness among other facets for credit assessments
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Achmea not ruling out offloading life and pensions business - worth €21.9bn of general account
12 February 2024Deal would involve group transferring up to 60% of its general account assets
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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