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Japanese life firms' profits improve as Covid costs recede
20 May 2024Japan Post Insurance and T&D Holdings both benefitted from new laws on deemed hospitalisation
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Spain's life sector consolidation continues in 2023, regulator reports
17 May 2024Life premiums expected to grow this year, but at slower pace than 2023's 36% surge
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Nippon Life to buy 20% of Corebridge for $3.8bn as part of US expansion
16 May 2024Parties want deal done by Q1 2025
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German life firms released "single-digit billions" from interest rates reserves in 2023
16 May 2024BaFin reveals policy surrenders were stable year on year
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Allianz's US life lapses double in Q1, but inflows still positive, says CFO
15 May 2024Claire-Marie Coste-Lepoutre acknowledges a "more complicated" environment for doing back-book deals
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Eiopa reveals European life lapse rate in 2023
15 May 2024The authority's latest risk dashboard was released yesterday
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BaFin president suggests EU should emulate UK's decluttering of regulations
15 May 2024Mark Branson also acknowledges Eiopa recent criticisms of German regulator
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Lapses worth €84bn drive net outflows from French insurers in 2023
15 May 2024Surrender payments were double the claims payments made by French life firms last year
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German life business in "silent run-off" as growth stalls
15 May 2024Back-book consolidation trend to continue despite cancelled Zurich and Axa deals, says rating agency analyst
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South Korean insurers' solvency ratios improve under transitional measures
14 May 2024The regulatory capital the industry required under KIC-S rules decreased by KRW 4.1trn
- Inflation as a major climate-related risk
- Some Bermudian life re/insurers found to have liquidity shortages
- M&G cites mismatches on IFRS 17 application in H1 IFRS losses
- Europe's climate resilience hinges on insurance and public-private cooperation
- Global reinsurers face uncertain future, S&P warns
- Carbon accounting standard PCAF expands membership, addresses treaty reinsurance
- Aviva counters India tax evasion and commission breach accusation
- Moody's shifts global reinsurance outlook to positive
- PIC buttons up £1.3bn buy-in deal with Coats Group
- Zurich expands resilience initiative in a bid to address all climate hazards
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RVS 2024: Reinsurers arrive strong, but an uncertain world could test their limits
06 September 2024The annual Rendez-Vous de Septembre (RVS) event begins this weekend in Monte Carlo and reinsurers sail in with robust financials - but there are uncertain waters on the horizon. Joshua Geer reports
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Demystifying insurance is key to tackling commercial underinsurance challenges
06 September 2024Experts discussed the issue at Verisk's London insurance conference
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Axa UK & Ireland appoints Rahul Gumber as CRO
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L&G: combined PRT market volumes for UK and US to hit over £250bn
06 September 2024The insurer said PRT markets in both countries are on track for one of their largest years ever
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South Korean insurers' net earnings rose 3% in H1, all thanks to non-life firms
06 September 2024