Archive

  • Bupa names head of investments for APAC

    28 June 2024

    Michael Vos, former regional CIO for Zurich takes on the role

  • 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

  • Zurich takes 70% stake in Kotak General Insurance as part of India expansion

    21 June 2024

    In deal with parent company worth INR 5,560 crores

  • Exploring the wild new world of real estate

    29 May 2024

    Andrew Angeli, global head of real estate research & strategy at Zurich, discusses how changes in demographic and consumer expectations give rise to a new real estate sector

  • Insurers divided on scale of inflation challenge and interest rate trajectory

    23 May 2024

    RLAM predicts era of "spiky" inflation, as disappointing UK CPI figures come in

  • 'Silent run-off' occurring in German life market, says Moody's

    16 May 2024

    Backbook life deals denied and abandoned, have stolen the limelight recently

  • Time for duration?

    14 May 2024

    With money market funds peaking, what are the allocation implications for insurers?

  • German life consolidators reveal lapse and liquidity risk details in latest SFCRs

    08 May 2024

    All life undertakings discussed experiences, mitigations and examinations of surrenders, in 2023

  • Viridium adds to investment burden, by doubling guarantee for Generali Leben's policyholders

    08 May 2024

    CEO Tilo Dresig addresses BaFin's stopping Viridium's planned back-book deal with Zurich

  • Comment - What future for PE-backed life book consolidators as AXA and Athora ditch transfer plans?

    07 May 2024

    Ending it was consensual, but BaFin was surely in the deal-partners' thoughts