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SFCR 2025 - Northern exposure is not all about general account equities
09 July 2025Scandinavian and Nordic insurers find voice in SFCRs to sing praises for their alternative holdings. David Walker listened in
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From major regulators to major ratings agencies, funded re causes concern
07 July 2025From the UK to Japan to the rest of Asia, funded re rings warning bells at regulators and ratings agencies, and leading large lifers and their asset managers are treading carefully
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SFCR 2025 - How private assets are 'having a moment' with Benelux CIOs
03 July 2025Solvency filings of Benelux insurers show a distinct liking among CIOs for directly-originated asset classes
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SFCR 2025 - The matching adjustment misfired, again, in Spain in 2024
13 June 2025Overall, the MA delivered a capital benefit to Spanish lifers using it in 2024. But that was not always the case, for the capital requirements of most of its users
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SFCR 2025 - Lapse risk keeps pressure up on Italian lifers in 2024
28 May 20252023 may have been the peak of policyholders cashing in contracts early, but last year was not that much easier for Italian life insurers
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SFCR 2025 - French insurers win out from buying into alternatives in 2024
22 May 2025Non-mainstream classes now make up to one-quarter of investment returns, some firms say
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SFCRs 2025 - German lifers as Europe's hard-core 'non-core' investors
08 May 2025Even after sleepy Bund yields staged a comeback, German life CIOs remain alive to rewards of alternative investments, their SFCRs show
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Lloyd's syndicates ventured 'beyond the core' in 2024
01 May 2025For most syndicates, 'core fixed income' was the anchor for their portfolios - but that did not prevent some from charting more distant waters with their general accounts in 2024
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Illiquidity in Bermudian investment portfolios
09 September 2024Bermudian groups' fair value hierarchies in 2023 analysed by Insurance Risk Data
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APAC insurance groups reveal better investment outcomes for Bermudian subsidiaries
05 August 2024From outsourcing to equity beta data to income leaps, APAC-owned Bermudians reported on an investment job well done, in 2023