EIOPA starts working on infrastructure investments

06 February 2015

To produce the best possible outcomes on this challenging task, EIOPA plans to actively engage with stakeholders.

Following its previous work on the regulatory treatment of long-term investments and, in particular, the advice on high quality securitisation, EIOPA is now concentrating its analysis on a more granular treatment of infrastructure investments.

In the course of its work, EIOPA intends:

• To develop a definition of infrastructure investments that offer predictable long-term cash-flows and whose risks can be properly identified, managed and monitored by insurers
• To explore possible criteria for the new class of long-term high quality infrastructure assets covering issues such as standardization and transparency
• To analyse the prudentially sound treatment of the identified investments within Solvency II, focusing on their specific risk profile

In this context, the Authority is organising a Roundtable with prominent and high level representatives from public authorities, insurance industry, infrastructure industry, asset management and academia with the objective to exchange views.

EIOPA believes that the knowledge and experience of stakeholders will provide valuable input in order to achieve a sound and prudent treatment of insurer's investment in infrastructure projects, which ultimately will benefit policyholders and the whole European economy.

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