February 2026 | Events

Dr. Robin Ettl was awarded the Helmut Kollhosser Prize 2025

Natural Disasters and the Limits of the Insurer's Obligation to Pay Benefits

June 2025 | Digital Insurance Forum

Digital Insurance Fora Summaries are Online!

Read up on past Digital Insurance Fora discussing ESG regulation, CSDDD, and different approaches to NatCat Insurance

May 2025 | Events

Save The Date: 9th Conference on Global Insurance Supervision

The Conference on "Global Insurance Supervision: Building Resilience in a Risk-Driven World" will be held on 3 September 2025 at Campus Westend, Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main. The ICIR and EIOPA are jointly organizing this conference.

Registration for the conference will open in the coming…

February 2026 | Blog

Sustainability-related financial product categorization through minimum investment quotas via regulatory requirements for product names – Comment on ESMA guidelines regarding fund names that use ESG or sustainability-related terms

Article by Gerrit Lüders published in Zeitschrift für Versicherungsrecht, Haftungs- und Schadensrecht (VersR), Vol. 4, pp. 201-209 (2026).

December 2024 | Annual Report

The ICIR Annual Report 2023/24 is now available online!

July 2024 | Publication

Discretionary decisions in capital requirements under Solvency II

We are happy to announce the publication of one of our ICIR working papers. Congratulations to Nicolaus Grochola and Sebastian Schlütter.

May 2024 | Working Paper

Shaping Inequality and Intergenerational Persistence of Poverty: Free College or Better Schools

The new ICIR working paper by Dirk Krüger, Alexander Ludwig and Irina Popova is now online!

November 2023 | Working Paper

The Influence of Negative Interest Rates on Life Insurance Companies

The new ICIR working paper by Nicolaus Grochola is now online!