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Comment: EIOPA fires its own starting gun on actually implementing Solvency II reform
18 April 2024Small yet pivotal parts of SFCRs for non-UK firms have been amended, with significantly better transparency one result
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Comparable SCR data appears for internal model users in Europe, from revised reporting requirements
18 April 2024New and amended Solvency II data templates are now being published by non-UK internal model users
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"Bonds are back" - Goldilocks appears for Lloyd's syndicates' fixed income holdings
18 April 2024Not a big bad bear was in sight when syndicates published annual reports in March, but many warned of elevated geopolitical instability risks
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Italy's lifers tap general accounts, and parental purses, as lapse risk endures in 2023
17 April 2024SFCRs describe levels, and ways to combat, lapse risk
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Japan's CIOs have alternatives managers in their sights
17 April 2024The Bank of Japan may have stolen the limelight last month, but insurance CIOs made headlines as well, with eye-catching allocations to non-mainstream assets and emerging managers
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SFCRs shine light on German legacy life books, and investments, of Zurich and AXA
16 April 2024Groups have planned, with mixed success, to sell the back-books to consolidators Viridium and Athora, respectively
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Aviva reveals make-up of MA investment portfolio
16 April 2024MA assets now represent about 42% of general account
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Insurance Risk Data collecting key data and reports from breadth and width of Europe's insurance industry
12 April 2024Undertakings have published their annual solvency filings for 2023
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Chart of the Week - Do PE-linked Lloyd's syndicates take more investment risk?
12 April 2024With PE links to insurers in the sights of regulators worldwide, we investigate the fair value hierarchy of some at Lloyd's
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New research unpicks shortcomings in LDI industry during 2022 gilts crisis
11 April 2024Researchers say Bank of England intervention "offset dysfunction" in gilts market