Archive

  • Axa's Buberl defends takeover of XL

    06 March 2018

    Axa's share price dropped almost 10% following the announcement of its plan to acquire XL Group. Aggelos Andreou reports on the rationale behind the deal

  • Axa to acquire XL in $15.3bn deal

    05 March 2018

    Mega-merger to create global leader in P&C commercial lines

  • Regulations not an excuse to stop innovating, warns Axa UK chief

    01 March 2018

    Amanda Blanc also spoke of how active the insurance sector is in the field of innovation

  • Insurers make 'short work' of SFCR internal model disclosures

    27 February 2018

    David Walker compares how firms describe internal models in their solvency and financial condition reports and considers how the practice may evolve

  • Moody's confirms end of deleveraging trend

    27 February 2018

    Volatile solvency ratios could trigger more subordinated debt issuance

  • Axa posts record earnings, and improved solvency ratio for 2017

    22 February 2018

    Underlying earnings and net income surpass €6bn for first time

  • Axa's Christian Thimann: EU's sustainability drive directly linked to Solvency II reform

    08 February 2018

    The chair of the European Commission's expert group on sustainable finance talks to Paul Walsh about the group's recommendations – and how they are intrinsically linked with Solvency II.

  • Environmentalists slam insurers for backing Polish coal plants

    08 February 2018

    We have no say in third-party assets, insurers claim

  • Valuation standard shifts in European life run-off market

    05 February 2018

    Solvency II own funds eclipses embedded value as pricing yardstick, PwC says

  • Underwriters put $2.3bn into insurtech during 2017

    01 February 2018

    Insurers sought improvement, venture capitalists want disruptors