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  • Pain relief - Sellers of life back books find their remedy

    04 August 2022

    Life CIOs once yearned for back book sales to reduce their yield-pain. But might higher interest rates do the same job, David Walker asks

  • Comment - On your marks, s-e-e-t, go (sell more life backbooks)!

    19 July 2022

    Jefferies analyst Philip Kett fires starting gun in possible race to sell life backbooks

  • Analysts welcome Axa's €661m German backbook deal

    18 July 2022

    Axa Deutschland's SFCR reveals "complete overhaul" of life product range

  • Axa IM wins outsourcing mandate from parent's €610m German life book deal

    15 July 2022

    Deferred annuities and endowments had average guarantee of 3.2%

  • Jefferies urges AXA to sell German life back-book

    12 July 2022

    Bank praises Thomas Buberl for pivoting business model from asset risks

  • Allianz X contributes to cyber insurtech funding round

    11 July 2022

    The series F funding round raised $250m

  • Viridium adds €21bn assets in Zurich German life book deal

    24 June 2022

    Zurich will add 8 points to its Swiss Solvency Test ratio

  • Zurich appoints group CIO

    31 May 2022

    Stephan van Vliet joins from Prudential replacing Urban Angehrn

  • The pain in Spain

    11 May 2022

    MedVida offers remedy to low yields and high life-book promises as it aims to be 'cornerstone consolidator' in Spanish market, David Walker reports.

  • Allianz to halt investments in new oil and gas fields

    29 April 2022

    And will require 'net-zero by 2050' commitment from hydrocarbon producers

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