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BaFin's Julia Wiens: "Supervisory convergence must not become an end in itself"
11 March 2025Germany's top insurance supervisor tells Sarfraz Thind about her priorities and thoughts on topics such as life consolidation, climate change and Europe's approach to oversight
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A first peek at insurers' transition plans
25 February 2025A handful of insurers have released plans that describe how they will help limit global warming and remain relevant in a net-zero economy. Joshua Geer compares the results and picks out highlights
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Aviva's sustainability push unpacked
06 February 2025Aviva's chief of sustainability and head of nature discuss how the UK insurer is progressing on sustainability, the challenges it's facing and future plans. Joshua Geer reports
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RGA eyes global growth of funded re
16 December 2024RGA has been one of the prime movers in reinsuring the UK's pension risk transfer insurers. Izzy Bickford, director, business development, talks to Sarfraz Thind about the funded reinsurance business and how she sees it developing
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The EU Taxonomy makes insurers look bad at sustainability - but is it fair?
16 July 2024In their first year of reporting, several major insurers have disclosed that none of their activities qualify as sustainable. Joshua Geer investigates whether the insurers or the EU Taxonomy framework is at fault
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PE and insurance: perception versus reality
21 June 2024Private equity and alternative asset manager-owned life insurers have been accused of making risky investments and running opaque businesses intent on making a fast buck. The facts may not bear this out, as Sarfraz Thind reports in the first of a two-part article
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The end of the road for matching adjustment reforms
18 June 2024The long journey to update the UK's version of the Solvency II matching adjustment is finally complete. Nick Ford summarises the implications of the changes and what's in store for life insurers
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Life ILS markets feel the heat from high rates
29 May 2024It has been a tough period for the life insurance-linked securities (ILS) market, afflicted by higher interest rates and unexpected losses. But participants are hopeful of a revival, as Christopher Cundy reports
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Solvency II risk margin reform liberates at least £13bn of capital for UK insurers
13 May 2024InsuranceERM analysis of top 20 insurers reveal companies with largest savings
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Asset-intensive reinsurance intensively assessed
09 April 2024The NAIC is drawing up proposals to tackle asset-intensive reinsurance as regulators worry about the vast volumes of risk being ceded outside the US. Sarfraz Thind reports