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Where is the wind blowing?
08 June 2023The financial market is divided on the likelihood of a recession and the future direction of travel for interest rates. Josh Adcock reports
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Italian CIOs welcome BTP yields rising - but maybe not their "exploding" - in 2022
24 May 2023While European CIOs welcomed debt yields heating up again in 2022, for Italians BTPs underwent a truly combustible expansion, David Walker finds
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Chart of the week - how Italian lifers use GAs for lapse risk
19 May 2023Italian SFCRs explain their liquidity planning, and its various methods, to meet a startling leap in lapse risk
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"Don't bet interest rates will stay high forever", Zurich CFO warns
17 May 2023Zurich has inked $1.8bn reinsurance deal with Resolution for US life policies, as part of investment pivot
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'Small dirty bomb' scenario improves Zurich unit's capital ratio by 15%
08 May 2023Insurer also models pandemic, 'credit crisis' and 'financial distress' scenarios
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BaFin sets out views on investor alliances and collusive behaviour
03 May 2023German regulator says belonging to engagement platforms does not per se indicate 'acting in concert'
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Zurich's SST ratio leaps 55pp as all local units' ratios improved in 2022
01 May 2023Reinsurer sells Canadian govvies to benefit from reinvestment rates
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Zurich Germany signs Cologne climate declaration for climate neutrality by 2035
27 April 2023Weeks after leaving the underwriting-led Net-Zero Insurance Alliance
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Large insurance groups' solvency budged only mildly, if spreads worsen
26 April 2023Analysis by IRD backs Moody's findings on major groups' strong ratios
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GamaLife asset deal helps deplete Zurich unit's solvency coverage to 102%
19 April 2023But Italian welcomes deal for facilitating focus on unit-linked and capital-lite products