Archive

  • German backbook deals and run-offs - a €150bn asset industry since 2014

    01 February 2024

    Moody's examined 14 deals, completed, pending and scuttled

  • Comment - BaFin holds cards (close to its chest) in future of German life-book consolidation

    01 February 2024

    PE part-ownership of Viridium seems to have informed regulator's rejection of Zurich deal

  • NZAOA elects five co-leads of five working tracks

    01 February 2024

    Four of the newly-elected leaders come from insurers

  • Comment - Are PE owners facing the end of their life backbook consolidation journey?

    31 January 2024

    After BaFin's move on Zurich and Viridium, the future seems uncertain if 'PE ownership' breaks deals

  • 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