Clifford Chance

Financing real economy: incentivising insurers to invest in Debt Funds

12 September 2013

A decree of 2 August 2013 makes investment rules for French insurance companies more flexible in order to facilitate direct and indirect loans to the "real" economy.  This highly anticipated reform, expected however to be replaced by Solvency II rules around 2016-2017, opens up new opportunities for the French insurance sector to invest in debt funds but with some limitations.

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