Archive

  • P&C strength drives Allianz record profit and Zurich premium growth

    13 May 2026

    Pricing pressure remains a concern despite strong first-quarter underwriting

  • Chubb outlines operation of $20bn maritime war risk facility in Persian Gulf

    23 March 2026

    Insurer will manage facility, set prices and T&Cs and manage all claims

  • Moody's spells out breadth of insurers at risk of losses from Middle East conflict

    13 March 2026

    Industry's total remaining exposure in Gulf could top $40bn, industry tells Moody's

  • Viridium sale likely to spark resurgence in European life consolidation

    21 March 2025

    Backing from major insurers and asset managers to assuage regulatory concerns

  • Rising interest rates unlikely to deter life back-book sellers, says Moody's

    12 July 2022

    Jefferies urging Axa to consider German legacy life book sale

  • R.I.P. traditional life insurance

    11 July 2022

    Low interest rates killed off European life insurance products that offered policyholders guaranteed annual returns. Even now as rates rise, David Walker finds practitioners are ready to bury the concept

  • Law change to give major boost to French life firms' solvency

    23 December 2019

    Profit-sharing reserves in guaranteed products will be eligible as solvency capital

  • Global life insurance outlook negative, says Moody's

    05 December 2016

    Firms affected by low interest rates, market volatility and regulatory changes

  • Brexit volatility puts insurers' Solvency II disclosure to test

    01 July 2016

    Analysts to seize opportunity to check whether reported sensitivities held

  • German life guarantees on the IAIS radar

    20 June 2016

    Revised methodology to assess systemic risk captures traditional life products, Moody's warns