Economic forecast 2016

Up until this fall, the economic picture in individual countries and regions has remained mixed.

Macroprudential supervision: Hand-in-hand with long-term investors

The concept of macroprudential supervision and regulation has progressed in leaps and bounds in recent years: once nothing more than a piece of obscure specialist knowledge coveted by certain regulators, the idea has now become a much vaunted miracle cure that promises to ensure stability on the financial markets.

Low interest rates, incomes and assets: The winners and the losers

The low interest rate policy pursued by the ECB and, in particular, the purchase of securities (QE) are having a direct and indirect impact on the incomes and assets of private households in the euro area.

Insurance markets in Asia - quality before growth

Despite slowing economic momentum, the insurance market in Asia in the years ahead is likely to grow more strongly than in the past.

Emerging markets - slowdown not beginning of end of catch-up process

In recent years, the forces driving global economic growth have shifted back somewhat in favor of the industrialized nations.

ECB asset purchase program leaves substantial mark on yields

The yields on top-grade long-term government bonds have been headed south for two decades or so.

Bumpy recovery and volatile financial markets

At the start of the year prospects were fairly good that global economic growth in 2015 would be appreciably stronger than in 2014.

Allianz Euro Monitor 2014

The Allianz Euro Monitor aims to expose existing and emerging imbalances in order to flag up the aberrations of the kind that led to the sovereign debt crisis in the euro area in a timely fashion.

Greece, QE and the Target balances

The Target balances proved to be a reliable crisis barometer in the course of the euro crisis.