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- NN and Aegon feel impact of Dutch regulator’s SII rule change
- Conservative investment portfolios helping to keep Germany’s non-life sector outlook stable
- Global insurance premiums to ‘recover to pre-COVID-19 crisis levels in 2021’
- CBIRC encourages great investment in medium/long-term corporate bonds by insurers
- Insurance supervisors should ‘strengthen their efforts’ to help insurers with LIBOR transition
Conservative investment portfolios helping to keep Germany’s non-life sector outlook stable
Germany’s non-life insurance sector has had its outlook maintained at stable by AM Best, partly due to the industry’s conservative investment portfolios limiting exposure to COVID-19-driven financial market volatility
Global insurance premiums to ‘recover to pre-COVID-19 crisis levels in 2021’
Global life insurance premiums are expected to contract by 6% in 2020 and non-life premiums by 0.1% due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Swiss Re has said, before volumes recover to pre-COVID-19 crisis levels in 2021
CBIRC encourages great investment in medium/long-term corporate bonds by insurers
Chinese insurance institutions should increase their investment in medium and long-term corporate bonds to help accelrate economic recovery folllowing COVID-19, the China Banking and Insurance Regulatory Commission (CBIRC) has said
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ABI announces extension to chair and deputy chair terms
The ABI has confirmed both its board chair Jon Dye, chief executive, Allianz Insurance, and deputy chair Julian Adams, director, public policy and regulation, M&G have agreed to extend their current roles to serve the full two year term, ending summer 2021
PRA sets deadline for firms to embed climate-related financial risk management
PRA-regulated firms should have fully embedded their approaches to managing climate-related financial risks by the end of 2021, deputy governor for prudential regulation and CEO of the PRA Sam Woods has said
European insurance industry supports EC’s sustainability objectives
The European insurance industry supports the EC’s sustainability objectives and generally welcomes the amendments to integrate sustainability into insurers’ prudential framework and sales processes, Insurance Europe has said
Insurance supervisors should ‘strengthen their efforts’ to help insurers with LIBOR transition
Insurance supervisors should “strengthen their efforts” in facilitating insurers to transition away from LIBOR, the International Association of Insurance Supervisors (IAIS) has said
Insurance Europe calls for improvements to SII encouraging investment in SMEs
Improvements to Solvency II are needed if investment is to be encouraged, particularly in SMEs, Insurance Europe has said
MA functioning ‘as intended’ during COVID-19 but some clarifications needed, PRA says
The matching adjustment (MA) has functioned as intended thus far throughout the COVID-19 crisis, the PRA has said, but areas remain where clarifications are needed to ensure consistency in firms’ interpretation of the regulator’s policy
‘Urgent need for clarity’ on treatment of RFR around IBOR transition – Insurance Europe
An “urgent need for clarity” is needed on how EIOPA’s Solvency II (SII) risk-free rates (RFR) will be amended to reflect the transition away from IBOR rates, Insurance Europe has said
Latest Features
'Double-hit' scenario to cause €160bn EU insurer balance sheet plunge
A 'double-hit' scenario across Europe is to have a negative impact worth €160bn on the undertakings balance-sheets of EU-wide insurers and for a 'low-for-long' scenario an impact of €100bn, according to EIOPA's latest insurance stress test report
Insurance Europe 'puzzled' by length of EIOPA's stress test recommendations
Insurance Europe is 'puzzled' by the long list of supervisory actions recommended by EIOPA arising from its latest stress test report
Real estate debt: how to target better outcomes from private debt investment
Careful underwriting of real estate debt can provide downside protection for insurers’ portfolios as the market cycle turns, says M&G’s Real Estate Debt Finance director Duncan Batty
Real estate debt: a compelling investment case for insurers
Insurance companies are increasingly seeking investments that offer both attractive returns and make efficient use of capital. A growing number are recognising the valuable role that real estate debt – specifically senior mortgages on commercial property – can play within a core fixed income portfolio – and the multiple benefits it can offer large-scale investors with longer investment horizons and capacity to accept illiquidity
Expert Views
How can we rethink insurance investment to solve the complexity challenge?
The model of insurance investing has been upended since the financial crisis by a confluence of
challenges. New assets, strategies and partnerships have the potential to help insurers
cut through this complexity and deliver sustainable solutions
Expert Views
New Rules, New opportunities: A return to European ABS for insurers?
At the height of the global financial crisis, insurance company investors withdrew from
the securitised debt market and sold down their asset-backed securities (ABS) holdings.
But a decade on, new regulation offers the potential for securitised debt to re-emerge
as an attractive investment opportunity for Solvency II-regulated insurers,
believes James King, Fund Manager at M&G Investments
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