Archive

• Fitch and S&P rule out insurer downgrades in the near term

  24 June 2016

  Rating actions dependent on prolonged economic slump and end of group solvency style regulation

• Investor focus on solvency ratios could shape capital strategies

  10 May 2016

  Rating agency warns industry that investors will compare Q1 ratios

• Bafin's Hufeld backs maximum guaranteed rate cut

  26 April 2016

  Change would do little to ease the pain of low interest rates on German life insurers, Fitch says

• Unfreezing the UFR

  26 April 2016

  The revised methodology for calculating the ultimate forward rate may not be a catastrophe for all insurers with long-term liabilities, but it will put an unwelcome spotlight on solvency and accelerate the redesign of products. Hugo Coelho reports

• Mutuals blame rating agencies for soaring Solvency II costs

  30 March 2016

  Amice calls for amendment to reduce reliance on external ratings

• Risky investments shrink non-life insurers' capital surplus

  10 March 2016

  Fitch Ratings assesses full-year results of three UK standard formula firms

• MetLife's spin-off subsidiaries suffer ratings downgrade

  14 January 2016

  S&P and Moody's cite capital intensity and lack of group support

• Fitch: Solvency II transitionals 'distort' comparisons

  11 January 2016

  Rating agency will not use Solvency II reporting to assist ratings

• Italian insurers would be worst hit by end of 0% capital charge for sovereign debt

  24 November 2015

  Fitch gauges impact of potential changes to Solvency II standard formula

• German insurers to hold another €10bn against guarantees

  12 October 2015

  Reference rate used to calculate ZZR requirements to be set at 2.9%