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Italians ranked only eighth in EEA, for home bias in sovereign investing
05 July 2024Spain and Sweden among nations with higher weighting in domestic debt, EIOPA finds
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COTW - Round the World with SFCRs - Benelux insurers praise outsourcing partners
05 July 2024As Benelux CIOs generally got better news in 2023 and 2022, back-slapping for mandate managers seemed the order of the day
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Sumitomo Life invests in good sleeping habits
04 July 2024Japanese lifer is backing developer of wearable tech for healthy sleeping
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About half Europe's insurers now hold private credit and debt, EIOPA finds
04 July 2024Financial Stability Report sounds warning over risks, and alternatives allocations by industry
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EIOPA warns against 'regulatory arbitrage' in captive cash pooling
03 July 2024Authority issued a letter of opinion yesterday
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Dutch lifer explains preference for smart beta in fixed income
03 July 2024DELA Natura added a loan fund to its investment pot in 2023, its SFCR reveals
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Europe's insurers prefer covering crypto-asset investors, to joining them
03 July 2024EIOPA's mid-year Financial Stability Report reveals instruments CIOs use to get investment exposure
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APAC weekly - Japanese insurers in full 'sorry mode', including for past investments
02 July 2024From strategic investments to staff being arrested, it seems Japan's insurers can't stop apologising
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Credit Agricole lifer sells down equities to meet surrenders in 2023
02 July 2024Insurer's SFCR detailed life policy lapse volumes for first time last year
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EIOPA reveals extent of property price hits in insurers' portfolios in 2023
02 July 2024Financial Stability Report urges "close monitoring" of industry's CRE exposures
- Comment: Insurers at the centre of pension de-risking's capital market shift
- Bringing structured private credit to European insurers
- Japan insurance trade body responds to IAIS paper on funded re and alternative investing
- Munich Re calls for "more pragmatic" regulatory approach to asset classification
- US life insurers offshored $800bn of reserves since 2018, Moody's says
- 'Rise of the East and decline of the West' heralds "new era" for China's insurance AM
- Insurance asset managers eye more risk taking in next 12 months
- Resolution Life seals $1bn block reinsurance deal in Hong Kong
- Swiss Life sells petrol station property in north of England
- RGA announces $1bn coinsurance deal with Dai-ichi Life
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Chart of the Week - DAV considers the best pension system, as Germany's demographic pyramid develops a 'bulging midriff'
06 June 2025Rigid rules and immutable guarantees could do Germany a disservice, DAV suggests
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Comment - Will Japanese couples stop giving birth to enough insurance CIOs?
06 June 2025A sense of urgency, if not emergency, surrounds insurers' warnings about falling birthrate
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Japan Post Insurance doubles investments in private property fund since July
06 June 2025Dedicated-client fund is being run by Mitsui & Co Realty
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Munich Re calls for "more pragmatic" regulatory approach to asset classification
05 June 2025More also needs to be done to support the use of new technology in the investment process
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Swiss Life sells petrol station property in north of England
05 June 2025Also instructs Knight Frank to sell Leeds office building