Archive

• Viridium hails change in ownership as "very good news for our clients"

  03 June 2025

  Change in ownership hoped to be completed by December

• Axa's German life policy transfer unit saw market risk double in 2024

  06 May 2025

  But Ager Leben reduced its €1.6bn Zinszusatzreserve

• Chart of the Week - Why Germany's 'silent life book run-off' could be a rainmaker for BlackRock

  04 April 2025

  Fitch estimates €100bn of German life books still up for consolidation

• Fitch predicts boost for Viridium's asset management arm from BlackRock deal

  04 April 2025

  Asset manager is in consortium buying Cinven out of life consolidator

• A 'Happy Future' for Viridium and its new owners including BlackRock?

  20 March 2025

  Cinven is selling out of German life consolidator to insurers and manager, in €3.5bn deal

• SFCRs shine light on German legacy life books, and investments, of Zurich and AXA

  16 April 2024

  Groups have planned, with mixed success, to sell the back-books to consolidators Viridium and Athora, respectively

• Chart of the Week - How IMAs could spell out the future of PE ownership of insurers

  23 February 2024

  Fee rates, and other T&Cs in the IMAs of PE houses and the consolidators they own, may attract (unwanted) regulatory attention

• Fitch says PE ownership not necessarily credit-negative for insurers

  15 February 2024

  Ratings agency looks at insurers' investment strategy riskiness among other facets for credit assessments

• Chart of the Week - As a €21bn deal is scuppered by BaFin, have PE owners run out of road for life book sales?

  02 February 2024

  German regulator's refusal to Zurich and Viridium seems bad news for insurers owned by PE

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

  01 February 2024

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