Archive

  • Nearly 2,000 European insurers have GAs smaller than in Zurich/Viridium's scuppered deal

    31 January 2024

    BaFin has stopped life backbook deal involving €21bn of assets

  • Zurich's German life backbook deal, with €21bn assets, with Virdium falls apart

    30 January 2024

    'Project Sander' was to involve investment assets linked to 724,000 policies, German unit's SFCR said

  • Impact investing is the future of sustainability for insurers, Zurich says

    10 January 2024

    Head of sustainability risk highlights collaboration, engagement and intentionality at launch of WEF Global Risks Report 2024

  • Will China have a financial crisis?

    27 December 2023

    Guy Miller, chief market strategist at Zurich, takes a view

  • 40 countries going to the polls in 2024, but Biden vs Trump remains prime time match

    26 December 2023

    Guy Miller, chief market strategist at Zurich, discusses the implication of the US election for economic outlook

  • CIOs put their skates on as the ice thins

    21 December 2023

    Zurich highlights four characteristics that will define 2024 in economic outlook

  • Feeding the birds: How geospatial data is key to making investments more biodiverse

    18 December 2023

    Biodiversity datasets are a new batch of facts and figures for investors to contend with and getting them right often requires a much more local approach

  • Zurich appoints Claudia Cordioli as group CFO

    15 December 2023

    Cordioli takes over from George Quinn from 1 March 2024

  • Inflation and rates volatility biggest challenge for insurers' revenue growth

    14 November 2023

    WTW poll finds 25% of insurers consider inflation and interest rate volatility their biggest 2024 concerns

  • Opportunities exist in CRE - even if offices face a GFC-style crisis

    13 November 2023

    Panellists at the Insurance Asset Risk Americas 2023 conference discuss the current environment in CRE, and the inevitable crisis faced by the office sector