Insurers’ investment strategies are focussing firmly on capital efficiency as the industry beds down for the long haul through the Covid crisis.

European insurers are keeping up the pressure on European Commission (EC) to use the review of Solvency II to ensure they can continue to offer long-term life and pension products with guarantees and also contribute towards financing of the economy, a key expectation emerging from governments as they set out their national Covid-19 recovery plans.

Trade finance is weathering the economic storms of the coronavirus pandemic and still offers insurers an attractive investment opportunity.

UK insurers hopes that the Prudential Regulation Authority could ease some Solvency II regulations after Brexit have been boosted by the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Rishi Sunak.