David Walker

Axa inks €660m deal with Athora for €16bn German life book sale

Deferred annuities and endowments had average guarantee of 3.2%

Apra removes A$150m capital add-on from Allianz Australia

One year after storm Bernd, German insurers count up bill

Insurers paid €5bn of total €8.5bn bill so far

Gothaer pegs Bernd losses at €530m

China's insurers suffer expected fall in solvency as C-Ross Phase II takes effect

CBIRC says ratios "remain within a reasonable range"

Rising interest rates unlikely to deter life back-book sellers, says Moody's

Jefferies urging Axa to consider German legacy life book sale

Australia's IAG joins Net-Zero Insurance Alliance

Announces partnership with First Nations group generating carbon credits

Insurers need more "non-standard" data on climate change, BoE warns

Customers will need to help where "data are not collected by anyone," Anil Kashyap predicts

R.I.P. traditional life insurance

Low 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

Allianz's average life guarantee falls one-third since 2011

Moody's says Structured Alpha hedge funds costs are "digested," and raises group's outlook