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  • Credit spread is biggest risk for life insurers

    04 July 2014

    PwC survey reveals inconsistencies in SCR calculations

  • UK life insurers expect profits to fall

    30 June 2014

    CBI/PwC survey reveals continuing concern over flat investment income

  • Annuities' replacements will fail to uphold profits: Moody's

    27 June 2014

    Profits could halve by 2025

  • Investment returns to fall for another three years

    25 June 2014

    Negative pressure on earnings will be offset by premium growth

  • BaFin supports participating surplus funds

    23 June 2014

    RfB capital to be recognised as tier 1 under Solvency II

  • Indian supervisor eases limits on derivatives for hedging

    19 June 2014

    Insurers can deal in plain vanilla interest rate instruments longer than one year

  • Moody's warns over falling demand for non-cat reinsurance

    18 June 2014

    Changes outlook for sector to negative

  • Low interest rates spell earnings problems for EU life sector

    16 June 2014

    But situation not as dire as Japan in the 1990s says Bernstein

  • European insurance investment portfolios grow to €8.6trn in 2013

    12 June 2014

    Overall GWP also climbs to €1.11bn

  • Rule changes may shrink German insurers' role in private equity

    05 June 2014

    Proposals could narrow range of PE and VC funds eligible for insurers' investment, says law firm