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Fitch expects GA returns to support Sumitomo Life during M&As
05 January 2024Sumitomo is buying Singapore Life entirely, including S$14.4bn assets
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Chart of the New Year - Where Europe's CIOs choose to invest GAs in funds
05 January 2024If you want to launch a fund for a European GA, you could do worse than using Germany, France or Luxembourg...
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Market share of UK lifers in pension risk transfer market revealed
04 January 2024Fitch expects no let-up in annuity writers' hunger for illiquids in 2024
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Ivass reveals Italian lifers' sharp swings from fixed income gain to loss - and not just from their BTPs
03 January 2024Local debt generated €35.5bn gross gains in 2021, then plunged to €27.6bn losses
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Indian insurers grow investment income nearly 20%
02 January 2024Total investment pot grew by 10.4%
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Charts of the Year - A dozen charts that encapsulated 2023 for the world's insurers...
29 December 2023From inflation to high interest rates, Solvency II reform to ESG, Insurance Asset Risk selects 12 charts to sum up the past year...
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Chart of the Week - Lapse risk hits European unit-linked business in 2023
22 December 2023EIOPA sheds light on levels of lapse risk, and investment activity, for lifers' unit-linked policies since 2021
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Direct action - Asset origination moves centre stage in re/insurers' investment plans
20 December 2023From backing BPAs to enhancing investment yields, directly-originated assets, and the managers able to source them, are finding favour among re/insurers worldwide, David Walker discovers
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Chart of the Week - What Apollo earns in fees for helping Bermuda CIOs (and, separately, ancient Greeks)
15 December 2023Apollo Global Management is in a growing phalanx of asset experts coining it in, by originating investments for Bermudian re/insurers
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Chart of the Week - Luxembourg regulator plans 'Liz Truss buffer' for LDI funds
08 December 2023CSSF stops (just) short of naming Liz Truss and Kwasi Kwarteng in its plans