Archive

  • Low rates threaten insurers' business models, says Fitch

    14 March 2013

    Insurers will shift business towards protection and annuities products

  • Solvency II has cost L&G £150m

    14 February 2013

    While RSA predicts additional £20m sum this year

  • FTSE 350 pension deficits jump in January after RPI decision

    06 February 2013

    £13bn increase despite 6.3% rise in UK stocks

  • Allianz and HSBC sign 10-year life and pension product deal

    29 January 2013

    Bank will distribute products in Turkey

  • Learning from Japan's 'lost decades'

    24 January 2013

    With much of Europe mired in a deepening recession, the parallels with Japan's 'lost decades' become ever more acute. Paul Fulcher and Teoman Kaplan explore whether European insurers can learn from their Japanese peers in how to deal with a prolonged state of stagnant economic growth and low interest rates

  • BlackRock predicts insurance asset reallocation in 2013

    24 January 2013

    Says insurers will replace banks in fixed income asset investment

  • AllianzGI to launch Europe building fund

    23 January 2013

    Will launch UK fund in Q2

  • Manulife's Rahim Hirji: shifting from hedging to growth

    23 January 2013

    Risk management is no longer about policing an insurance company, says Rahim Hirji, chief risk officer at Canada's Manulife Financial. He talks to Lorna Davies about changing regulations, market concerns and the development of the CRO

  • Rothesay Life and Vestey agree £115m bulk annuity deal

    22 January 2013

    Goldman Sachs' insurance arm wrote over £1bn of new bulk annuity business in 2012

  • Skilled people leaving banking for insurance

    21 January 2013

    Optimism and profitability also up for UK life and general insurance, PwC and CBI survey finds