Finding a consensus on IFRS 17 leverage ratios
Some signs of agreement on how financial leverage will be presented under the new insurance contracts accounting standard are emerging, but options remain open, as Christopher Cundy reports
Life back-book consolidators shrug off threat from rising rates
Rising interest rates are unlikely to stop life insurers from selling their legacy liabilities to consolidators, as many other incentives for doing deals remain. David Walker reports
IFRS 17: still waiting for disclosures
The IFRS 17 accounting standard is due to be implemented in five months' time, but many insurers are leaving it until the eleventh hour to reveal what impact the transition will have on their financial metrics. Christopher Cundy and Paul Walsh report
Rising interest rates won't stymie life back book deals
Experts share the latest trends in this area with InsuranceERM
R.I.P. traditional life insurance
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
It's life Oliver, but not as we knew it
European life insurers' capital consumption used to give their CEOs indigestion. But the "capital-lite" diets of Allianz and others has transformed the business, as David Walker discovers
Worst days over for Europe's life insurers, says Fitch
Allianz has become self-sustaining for capital on new life and health insuring