German insurance companies hold €528bn in Spezialfonds

Written by Adam Cadle

20/02/2023

German insurance companies currently hold €528bn in Spezialfonds, latest figures published by the German Investment Funds Association (BVI) have revealed.

Across the German fund industry, open-ended Spezialfonds received a total of €62bn in new money.

The BVI said open-ended Spezialfonds are the largest fund group with assets of €1,943bn. Together with discretionary mandates worth €529bn, almost two-thirds of the total AuM are attributable to purely institutional business.

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