Solvency II Revisted
Europe adopted the Solvency II regulatory framework for insurance companies in 2016. In 2017 Advent authored a whitepaper about the framework which discussed the capital efficiency of the convertible asset for insurance firms regulated by Solvency II. With the passage of time and recent reforms to Solvency II which have come into effect since 2016, Advent recently revisited this topic in Solvency II Revisited which discusses what has changed, what has remained the same, and from the perspective of convertible bonds what are the implications for insurance companies. The paper concludes that Solvency II regulated insurers could increase their return on regulatory capital by allocating to convertibles in place of equity or core-fixed income.