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Equity: Listed for Brits, unlisted for French, Swedes just love it
30 December 2020Insurance Asset Risk reveals how European insurers like their equity holdings
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EU regulations have proven their worth in 2020—2021 will be about fine tuning
30 December 2020Elizabeth Gillam, head of EU government affairs & public policy at Invesco, talks about the EU's regulatory pipeline for the coming year, and the key pieces of legislation that may affect insurers' investments. Interview by Vincent Huck
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Expect a year of two halves for 2021—the bad, followed by the impressive
30 December 2020Investment horizon will closely track vaccine rollout, Manulife says
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"Unloved" UK market gets boost from Brexit trade deal success
30 December 2020UK market's future is the €56bn question for Europe's insurers
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China Great Wall AM manager under regulatory investigation
29 December 2020Chinese watchdog alleges "serious violation of discipline and law"
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UK insurers hold most CRE debt of European peers
29 December 2020But individually Dutch insurers are bigger spenders in the asset class
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BaFin's Frank Grund rebuffs risk of instrumentalising ESG
29 December 2020Germany's top insurance regulator calls sustainability "social and cross-generational topic"
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Germany's ZZR remains a conundrum for insurers
29 December 2020Calculating pay-ins in Germany's Zinszusatzreserve (ZZR) was overhauled in 2018 to reduce pressure on German insurers to build the reserve too quickly by selling valuable investments just to satisfy mandatory contributions. Has the reform been just a 'one-year wonder'? David Walker investigates
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Less than 40% of EEA insurers invest in real estate equity
28 December 2020French, German and UK insurers account for 67% of the industry's combined holdings
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Brexit or low interest rates: Chesnara knows the answer
28 December 2020The year has been volatile and ugly. And just when it is shaping towards an end, another unwelcome friend has re-entered the fray: Brexit. However, UK insurer Chesnara's CEO says Brexit is not the worst thing to be worried about right now.