Archive

  • Surrender pressure eases at Italy's life firms, SFCRs show

    02 June 2026

    Sector has renewed lapse reinsurance or entered new treaties, just the same

  • UK matching adjustment 2025 review: gilt-y pleasures

    11 May 2026

    Life insurers investing in sovereign debt strategies and limited use of new MA flexibilities are among the trends revealed in InsuranceERM's market analysis and review. Christopher Cundy and David Walker report

  • Wakam plans another recapitalisation after breaching solvency limit

    20 April 2026

    French insurer ended 2025 with a solvency capital ratio of 66%

  • LV boosts solvency with mass lapse reinsurance cover

    15 April 2026

    UK life mutual takes other management actions to reduce lapse risk capital

  • Insurance Risk Data jumps into action as SFCR deadline dawns

    08 April 2026

    Reports will add to 954m annual data points Eiopa receives from industry's insurers

  • European life risk ceding creates €560bn business for reinsurers since 2016

    05 February 2026

    UK firms ceded more annually than all Solvency II nations combined

  • Life reinsurance in Europe - a €100bn industry

    21 January 2026

    UK firms dominated ceding volumes in 2024

  • Solvency II's proposed reporting simplifications "a placebo", says GDV

    14 October 2025

    German association says Eiopa's proposals will do little to reduce burden on insurers

  • Whatever happened to the Solvency II TMTP?

    17 September 2025

    The transitional measure on technical provisions (TMTP) boosted European insurers' solvency by more than €90bn in 2020 - but today it's just a fraction of that. Christopher Cundy finds out why

  • LCP highlights non-life market softening amid complex risk landscape

    15 August 2025

    Inflation, geopolitical instability, climate change and emerging threats dominate UK and Irish insurer SFCR disclosures