Archive

  • Comment - The Devil, insurers and coal, and the Deep Blue Sea

    10 May 2022

    With governments letting them down, insurers face no easy choices in their ability to tackle climate change

  • 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

  • Allianz reveals up to 25% board variable pay cuts for hedge fund losses

    07 March 2022

    Oliver Bäte sees personal 'individual contribution factor' cut as Structured Alpha threatens to slice boardroom remuneration

  • Comment - Buying (windfarms) to the sound of gunfire

    23 February 2022

    Russia shoots itself in the pipeline, and seals Europe's climate transition

  • Allianz's $4.2bn hedge fund loss will not hit rating, Fitch says

    21 February 2022

    Insurer's US Structured Alpha Funds are subject of litigation after pandemic collapse

  • 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

  • IFRS 17 represents a huge opportunity, Allianz CEO says

    18 November 2021

    Despite some seeing the standard as a problem