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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 2024German regulator's refusal to Zurich and Viridium seems bad news for insurers owned by PE
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German backbook deals and run-offs - a €150bn asset industry since 2014
01 February 2024Moody's examined 14 deals, completed, pending and scuttled
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Comment - BaFin holds cards (close to its chest) in future of German life-book consolidation
01 February 2024PE part-ownership of Viridium seems to have informed regulator's rejection of Zurich deal
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Chart of the Week - Eurovita's general account over time, % (2017-2021)
07 July 2023SFCRs show the Italian lifer being rescued by five peers, and banks, shunned risk - including heavy BTP weightings - in its GA
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Moody's explains, and welcomes, Eurovita rescue plan
06 July 2023The 'rescuing' insurers will share assets and liabilities, while banks cover liquidity from November
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The death of life insurance
13 July 2022They were the bane of life for many CIOs, but a rich source of outsourcing for asset managers. Are traditional life policies - and their challenges for investing - now dead? David Walker investigates
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Europe's life CIOs to trim risk-taking, predicts S&P Global Ratings
04 July 2022Yields on mainstream classes now enough to satisfy some guarantees
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Asset risk still "high pressure point" for Italian insurers, Moody's warns
18 March 2021Due to their concentration to domestic govvies
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Munich Re emerges scarred but victorious in 2020
25 February 2021Financial results show drops in regular investment income but gains in portfolio value
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Fitch downgrades Volkswohl Bund Leben on reinvestment yield
03 November 2020Moody's hangs negative outlook on German life sector