MSCI Solvency II Update (March 2017) Report
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Mar
2017
This latest report adds six years of European investment market records, updates the capital risk analysis to December 2015, and includes data from five additional countries. As a result, the report offers a more comprehensive and robust basis for concluding that an evidence-driven pan-European property shock factor need be no more than 15%, confirming the findings of the 2011 study. In addition, new analysis undertaken for this update indicates that such a shock factor might be further reduced to 12% for broadly balanced European composites that exclude the U.K.
The study confirms the original finding that the current SCR of 25% stipulated under the Solvency II Directive for investment in European real estate, including through funds, exceeds the most extreme 12-month downside values at risk documented for geographically diverse real estate investments across Europe.
