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Bigger does not mean better for insurers

Expanding an insurance business in good times typically meant growing profits. In today's tougher economic environment, Europe's largest insurers are being much more prudent about spending capital, and are only considering very careful expansion, as David Walker writes

Full complexity of Europe's insurance groups revealed

Despite Amanda Blanc's simplification drive, Aviva remains the UK's most complex insurer

Russian-Ukrainian exposure at Europe's insurers revealed

Insurance Risk Data finds Allianz takes top spot for number of stakes in war-zone businesses

Insurers go back to basics in biodiversity underwriting push

The loss of biodiversity has been identified as one of the world's most severe risks, but insurers are only just beginning to get to grips with it. Paul Walsh reports

Axa gains approval for internal reinsurer

Australia risking "pariah status" among investors by insuring coal

Adani requested federal backstop for mutual pool

It's life Oliver, but not as we knew it

European life insurers' capital consumption used to give their CEOs indigestion. But the "capital-lite" diets of Allianz and others has transformed the business, as David Walker discovers

Axa scales back Russia business

The French insurer has also donated €6m to NGOs working in Ukraine

Insurers pinpoint culture as key barrier for insurtech success

Generali's Steven Zuanella says the insurer has had its "fair share of failures"

InsuranceERM's Judges' award for contribution to the industry: Renaud Guidée

Axa's group chief risk officer talks to Christopher Cundy about establishing the Net-Zero Insurance Alliance and the other big issues on his agenda