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  • ZZR unwind continues at German life insurers on higher rates

    29 May 2024

    "Relief of burden" felt by country's life insurers in shrinking ZZR

  • German insurer's SFCR reveals ESG scenario risk planning

    12 August 2022

    LVM examines the impact of natural catastrophes becoming impossible to reinsure

  • Germany's re/insurers hit with largest ever natcat bill in 2021

    27 May 2022

    Total claims totalled €12.7bn

  • German insurers count up costs of Bernd in SFCRs

    13 April 2022

    Reinsurance saved many from worse pain

  • German insurer reveals WWII board members were in Nazi SS

    11 March 2022

    LVM "one of few" insurers to tackle its history under Adolf Hitler, says historian

  • Strong life sales buoy spirits at German mid-tier composites

    03 February 2022

    Mid-sized German firms Bayerische, Münchener Verein and LVM beat industry averages

  • Germany's interest rate reserve gets bigger - and better

    07 January 2021

    German life insurers paid more into the Zinszusatzreserve again in 2020, despite the new "corridor method" of calculation that intended to unburden the sector. Industry leaders tell David Walker the ZZR remains fit for purpose nonetheless