David Walker

Boomtime coming for global life insurers as rates rise, predicts Swiss Re

Lapse risk's peak now "likely to have passed", the Swiss reinsurer believes

Global premiums grew at fastest rate in 18 years in 2023, Allianz research finds

Global Insurance Report predicts a cooling in growth rate over coming decade

German natcat insurers held twice the flood-risk capital needed for storm Bernd

BaFin has published results after analysing 176 re/insurers facing natcat risk

Frank Grund switches from supervising German insurers to rating role

Overseas units drive profits in Japan, while local auto lines mis-fire

MS&AD, Tokio Marine and Sompo reported annual results yesterday

Japanese life firms' profits improve as Covid costs recede

Japan Post Insurance and T&D Holdings both benefitted from new laws on deemed hospitalisation

Spain's life sector consolidation continues in 2023, regulator reports

Life premiums expected to grow this year, but at slower pace than 2023's 36% surge

Nippon Life to buy 20% of Corebridge for $3.8bn as part of US expansion

Parties want deal done by Q1 2025

German life firms released "single-digit billions" from interest rates reserves in 2023

BaFin reveals policy surrenders were stable year on year

Allianz's US life lapses double in Q1, but inflows still positive, says CFO

Claire-Marie Coste-Lepoutre acknowledges a "more complicated" environment for doing back-book deals