Tag: insurers
Bafin warns insurers to be careful when paying dividends to shareholders
BaFin in Frankfurt The head of insurance supervision, Frank Grund, is preparing the industry for difficult times. (Photo: Bloomberg) Frankfurt In view of the current challenges, the financial regulator Bafin…
Motor vehicle insurers are raising prices sharply for 2023 – those who switch can save
Change by the end of November: save on car insurance According to Stefan Schuttermair, the savings potential when changing car insurance providers is particularly high this year. (Photo: dpa-tmn) Frankfurt…
Numerous insurers complain about a shortage of skilled workers
Businesswoman on her way to the office Insurers are desperately looking for new staff. (Photo: OJO Images/Getty Images) Frankfurt It’s a topic that affects many industries, but poses particular problems…
Insurers demand fewer new parts for vehicle damage
Workshop Porsche Center in Stuttgart An appraiser checks the paintwork of a Porsche sports car in the workshop at the Porsche Center in Stuttgart. (Photo: dpa) Munich The alliance demands…
Insurers: Goldman Sachs buys Allianz shares
Flags of the Allianz insurance group in front of the Munich Olympic Hall In addition to the in-house asset manager Allianz GI, the largest shareholders of the insurer are the…
Insurers: Goldman Sachs buys Allianz shares
Flags of the Allianz insurance group in front of the Munich Olympic Hall In addition to the in-house asset manager Allianz GI, the largest shareholders of the insurer are the…
Insurers: Goldman Sachs buys Allianz shares
Flags of the Allianz insurance group in front of the Munich Olympic Hall In addition to the in-house asset manager Allianz GI, the largest shareholders of the insurer are the…
Inflation is curbing new business for life insurers
life insurance It will be years before life insurers can offer their customers higher returns again. (Photo: dpa) For years, an entire industry has been longing for it, even swearing:…
Life insurers have to adjust to less business
Frankfurt At first glance, rising interest rates are good news for life insurers and pension funds. Investments offer them opportunities for higher returns. They can also more easily meet the…
How inflation and the turnaround in interest rates are affecting insurers
Munich It is a mixture that makes even long-time industry experts such as Jefferies analyst Philip Kett speak of a “complex matter” for European insurers: with the Russian war of…
Gaps between life insurers widen
Frankfurt Rising interest rates are good for life insurers in the long run – but some providers will benefit more than others. Herbert Schneidemann, head of the German Association of…
Life insurers: old-age provision becomes a loser
Munich Despite low interest rates and ever weaker returns, Germans remained loyal to their preferred form of old-age provision for many years. But now savers’ love of life insurance is…
Motor insurers under pressure: car insurance is likely to become more expensive
The insurers cited the strong claims inflation in the first half of the year as the reason. Berenberg analyst Thomas Bateman is convinced: “The only way out for car insurers…
These are the best insurers in 2022
Cologne The digital insurer Wefox relies on pure emotion in the competition for attention. The German-Swiss insurtech signed shirt sponsorship deals with Italian soccer champions AC Milan and Bundesliga club…
Insurers are becoming more cautious about real estate
Allianz pays record sum for Frankfurt office tower T1 Allianz-Versicherung has acquired a new high-rise office building in downtown Frankfurt for a record sum of 1.4 billion euros. (Photo: dpa)…
Insurers are becoming more cautious about real estate
Allianz pays record sum for Frankfurt office tower T1 Allianz-Versicherung has acquired a new high-rise office building in downtown Frankfurt for a record sum of 1.4 billion euros. (Photo: dpa)…
Supervisors warn of serious hacker attacks on insurers
Munich It was only seven words, but the sentence was enough to put an industry on alert: “Insurers are a popular target for cyber attacks,” said Frank Grund, executive director…
Bank of England warns of billions in risk for banks and insurers
Artistic protest against the financing of fossil fuels The Bank of England’s climate stress test shows which risks the financial sector would take even without climate protection measures. (Photo: dpa)…
Insurers are demanding an early extension of the state guarantee
Christmas market at Berlin’s Breitscheidplatz In theory, the terror insurer Extremus would have had to pay after the attack – but the financial damage suffered by the insured was below…
Fierce Bafin criticism of fund policies from life insurers
“The Bafin investigation is a real hammer,” says Professor Hermann Weinmann from the Institute for Finance at the Ludwigshafen University of Applied Sciences. It shows that there has been a…