Asa Gibson

• PIC completes £725m buy-in

  30 November 2017

  Attractive pricing helped by significant de-risking by the fund

• Shift into new asset classes requires new risk management capabilities, warns Bernardino

  16 November 2017

  Eiopa charts investment trends between 2011 and 2016

• Talanx appoints CEO amid leadership shuffle

  10 November 2017

  Torsten Leue takes over from Herbert Hass, who is poised to become chair of the group's supervisory board

• Model changes bring Aegon close to "opportunity zone"

  09 November 2017

  Dutch insurer adds 10pp to its solvency capital ratio, bringing it close to the upper limit of its target capitalisation

• Eiopa aims for simplicity in standard formula proposals, but does not pander to industry

  30 October 2017

  Authority's recommendations pass to European Commission for decision

• US Treasury rejects Sifi methodology for insurers

  27 October 2017

  Prudential Financial and MetLife are given a huge boost by latest Treasury report, which favours an activities-based approach over the entity-based systemic risk evaluations

• Nat cats hit Scor with €267m quarterly net loss

  26 October 2017

  Retrocession programme shields reinsurer from significant capital losses, but the period is a 'wake-up call' for the industry

• Talanx's ZZR allocation jumps 41%

  14 August 2017

  Reserves for the first half of 2017 reach almost half a billion, taking the total reserve fund to a "frightfully high figure"

• Munich Re deleverages to strengthen capital position

  09 August 2017

  Reduces subordinated debt to bring leveraged debt ratio below 10%, while solvency ratio falls to 261%

• Aviva halves credit risk exposure to Blackrock

  03 August 2017

  Reduces significant counterparty risk arising from unit-linked contracts offered by Blackrock to Aviva's UK life customers