This paper analyses investment strategies of three types of institutional investors – pension funds, life insurers and non-life insurers – over the period 1999-2005. We use balance sheet and cash flow data, including purchases and sales of equity, fixed income and real estate. We trace asset...

We estimate a probit model of insolvency risk, using a dataset of about 400 Dutch insurance companies during the period 1995-2005. The results suggest that surplus capital, company size, profitability, long-tailed business and being a mutual insurer reduce the risk of insolvency. The model can...