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  • Allianz enjoys uplift in reinvestment yields as rates finally drift upwards

    12 May 2022

    Operating profits grew 11% for asset management, year on year

  • Allianz sees promise, in a life of less promises

    22 April 2022

    Once, lifers gave CEOs headaches and ate up their capital. But now, David Walker finds, it's their CEOs hungry for more, in a 'capital-lite' world

  • Chart of the Week - ...in which IRD reveals the Meaning of Life...

    08 April 2022

    How Oliver Bäte and Giulio Terzariol 'saw the (capital) lite!'...

  • Comment - Allianz's life-milestone takes a capital-millstone from Bäte's neck

    08 March 2022

    Rivals may find the 'unshackling' of life and health capital burdens at Allianz unwelcome news

  • Chart of the week: Cool Hand Bäte

    18 February 2022

    Allianz publish its FY result in a game of two halves

  • Allianz books €4bn gross provisions for hedge fund woes, takes 9pp hit to solvency

    18 February 2022

    But Oliver Bäte reveals life unit now self-funding its capital requirement

  • Allianz's Structured Alpha problems "isolated incident", CFO Giulio Terzariol says

    10 November 2021

    External clients kept feeding money into Allianz's alternatives in Q3

  • Oliver Bäte admits "terrible" week over US hedge fund woes

    06 August 2021

    But Allianz CEO affirms strategic importance of asset management to German insurer

  • German life firms reveal which investments got sold to feed ZZR

    07 June 2021

    But Allianz Leben says the reserve aids systemic sustainability

  • Allianz defies falling reinvestment yields to re-expand life investment margin

    12 May 2021

    Average minimum guarantee now 0.45%