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IFRS 17 is "two steps forward, one step back" for insurance accounting
03 July 2024Updated standard removes asset-liability mismatch, but impedes comparability, says S&P
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Finding a consensus on IFRS 17 leverage ratios
23 January 2023Some signs of agreement on how financial leverage will be presented under the new insurance contracts accounting standard are emerging, but options remain open, as Christopher Cundy reports
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Life back-book consolidators shrug off threat from rising rates
09 August 2022Rising interest rates are unlikely to stop life insurers from selling their legacy liabilities to consolidators, as many other incentives for doing deals remain. David Walker reports
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IFRS 17: still waiting for disclosures
04 August 2022The IFRS 17 accounting standard is due to be implemented in five months' time, but many insurers are leaving it until the eleventh hour to reveal what impact the transition will have on their financial metrics. Christopher Cundy and Paul Walsh report
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Rising interest rates won't stymie life back book deals
29 July 2022Experts share the latest trends in this area with InsuranceERM
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R.I.P. traditional life insurance
11 July 2022Low interest rates killed off European life insurance products that offered policyholders guaranteed annual returns. Even now as rates rise, David Walker finds practitioners are ready to bury the concept
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It's life Oliver, but not as we knew it
08 April 2022European 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
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Worst days over for Europe's life insurers, says Fitch
08 March 2022Allianz has become self-sustaining for capital on new life and health insuring