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Pain relief - Sellers of life back books find their remedy
04 August 2022Life CIOs once yearned for back book sales to reduce their yield-pain. But might higher interest rates do the same job, David Walker asks
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Comment - On your marks, s-e-e-t, go (sell more life backbooks)!
19 July 2022Jefferies analyst Philip Kett fires starting gun in possible race to sell life backbooks
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Analysts welcome Axa's €661m German backbook deal
18 July 2022Axa Deutschland's SFCR reveals "complete overhaul" of life product range
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Axa IM wins outsourcing mandate from parent's €610m German life book deal
15 July 2022Deferred annuities and endowments had average guarantee of 3.2%
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Jefferies urges AXA to sell German life back-book
12 July 2022Bank praises Thomas Buberl for pivoting business model from asset risks
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Allianz X contributes to cyber insurtech funding round
11 July 2022The series F funding round raised $250m
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Viridium adds €21bn assets in Zurich German life book deal
24 June 2022Zurich will add 8 points to its Swiss Solvency Test ratio
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Zurich appoints group CIO
31 May 2022Stephan van Vliet joins from Prudential replacing Urban Angehrn
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The pain in Spain
11 May 2022MedVida offers remedy to low yields and high life-book promises as it aims to be 'cornerstone consolidator' in Spanish market, David Walker reports.
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Allianz to halt investments in new oil and gas fields
29 April 2022And will require 'net-zero by 2050' commitment from hydrocarbon producers