Sovereign debt holdings ‘significant’ driver of insurer risk, Bundesbank paper says

Risk from sovereign debt ‘not reflected’ in current insurance regulation

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The Bundesbank

Risks in insurance companies' sovereign bond portfolios are "an important driver of insurer risk, which is not reflected in current insurance regulation", a working paper published this week by the Bundesbank says.

In On the exposure of insurance companies to sovereign risk, Robert Düll, Felix König and Jana Ohls present a novel panel dataset showing credit default risk for financial institutions and non-financial companies from 2008 to 2013 for nine countries: the US, Japan, the UK, Switzerland

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