Archive

  • Aviva and L&G fail Solvency II capital test without matching adjustment

    19 May 2017

    Prudential and Standard Life would remain Solvency II compliant without any LTGs

  • ILS investment here to stay, even with higher interest rates

    17 May 2017

    Reinsurers say pension funds won't give up uncorrelated risks when investment markets improve

  • Allianz increases ZZR by €1.6bn in Q1

    12 May 2017

    Uses realised gains on bond portfolio, beating operating profits expectations by 15%

  • Anbang banned from issuing new products for three months

    05 May 2017

    Chinese regulator points to products which "deviate" from traditional insurance

  • Two-thirds increase in German life run-off expected: Fitch

    27 April 2017

    Firms to manage back-books internally in short term but many expected to transfer in next five years

  • Eiopa gave BaFin five concessions on UFR change

    10 April 2017

    Important that firms do not have to prove post-transitional solvency with lower UFR, says Frank Grund

  • Dutch firms most affected by UFR change: Fitch

    07 April 2017

    But solvency ratios unlikely to fall below 140%

  • UFR still "ludicrously high", says Bernstein

    07 April 2017

    Eiopa would have been justified to cut the rate to as low as 1.5%

  • Eiopa methodology cuts UFR to 3.65%

    05 April 2017

    Annual changes reduced from 20 to 15bps

  • Eiopa plans to release UFR decision on 4 April

    31 March 2017

    Meeting took place but communication delayed