Archive

  • Eiopa presses ahead with insurance resolution

    02 December 2014

    National supervisors should gain additional powers

  • Aviva and Friends Life agree terms of £5.6bn deal

    02 December 2014

    Boards recommend all-share acquisition

  • Stress tests expose €8.3bn capital shortfall

    01 December 2014

    About 16% of insurers surveyed fail to meet Solvency II requirements

  • Eight years of low rates enough to topple insurers

    01 December 2014

    Nearly one in four fall short of capital in stress scenario

  • Portuguese supervisor finds 20% of insurers with capital shortfall

    28 November 2014

    Average solvency capital requirement is 101%, according to Solvency II impact study

  • Brisbane storm could cost $130m

    28 November 2014

    Worst to hit area since 1985

  • Morgan Stanley: insurers entering "expansion" cycle

    28 November 2014

    Firms expected to re-risk and raise leverage

  • France takes another Solvency II test

    27 November 2014

    There has been much talk about the challenges of preparing for Solvency II, but only insurers in France can claim to have had anything like a real test. Romain Paserot at French regulator ACPR shares his view of progress with Christopher Cundy

  • Dutch insurers could take €900m charge on mortgage revaluation

    27 November 2014

    Moody's warns about negative impact on solvency ratios of life insurers

  • L&G strikes $4bn pension buyout

    27 November 2014

    American car-part supplier transfers liabilities of 30,000 scheme members