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European insurers shifting away from illiquids, S&P says
25 December 2024Auditors' view allays agency's fears from last year, with S&P saying insurers shifting to "plain vanilla" assets
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Geopolitical risks could eat up 95% of European insurers' capital surplus, S&P says
29 November 2024Ratings agency found equity risk far outweighed bond risk in stress test scenario, despite lower exposures
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Unrealised bond losses a barrier to insurers investing in green assets, S&P says
01 December 2023Agency says it could take 20 years to rebalance portfolio into greener assets
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Geopolitical risks at their highest, panellist at S&P conference says
01 December 2023Insurance experts highlight political risks, difficulty of isolating scenario indicators and potential for impact on equities
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Life stakeholders find reasons to sing and dance about back book deals
11 August 2022Those evaluating and otherwise benefitting from back book sales - including asset managers - tell David Walker they like what they see
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A eulogy to traditional life insurance
14 July 2022Dearly Beloved, we are gathered here today at the death of traditional life insurance.
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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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Allianz sees promise, in a life of less promises
22 April 2022Once, 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
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Neither doom nor boom for European insurers in 2021
19 November 2020But market volatility and credit risk will be key high-risks next year, S&P warns