Archive

  • SFCRs shine light on German legacy life books of Zurich and Axa

    16 April 2024

    Groups have planned, with mixed success, to sell the back-books to consolidators

  • BaFin again bans unlicensed insurance work of "King of Germany"

    24 May 2023

    Reichsbürger extremists have been on BaFin's radar for at least nine years

  • Skills scarcity concern at decades high, report German life firms

    14 February 2023

    Risk to domestic demand and liquidity become major worries, DIHK reveals

  • Germany's Reichsbürger revolutionaries founded illegal insurance companies

    19 December 2022

    Deutsche Gesundheitskasse was banned by BaFin five years ago

  • German actuaries warn of elevated mortality as climate change emerges

    15 November 2022

    Heat stress more likely as global climate warms, says DAV

  • Full extent of transitional measures in Germany revealed

    29 July 2022

    The measures and the volatility adjustment maintain capital adequacy for some insurers

  • Solvency II in Germany: four insurers below 100% ratio without transitional measures

    28 July 2022

    New analysis from Insurance Risk Data picks up where Eiopa left off, evaluating the use of the long-term guarantees measures in Germany, the EEA country where they are most popular. David Walker reports

  • Admiral appoints Keith Davies as group chief risk and compliance officer

    18 July 2022

    Will join from Federated Hermes in September

  • Axa inks €660m deal with Athora for €16bn German life book sale

    15 July 2022

    Deferred annuities and endowments had average guarantee of 3.2%

  • Zurich cuts capital intensity in $20bn German back-book sale

    24 June 2022

    Viridium says Zurich Deutscher Herold deal adds €21bn of assets