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Reviving German life insurance

The German life insurance industry—Europe’s third largest, with more than 85 million policies in force and annual premium income of $57 billion—faces hard times. Since the mid-1990s, gross margins and profits have been dropping steadily. More recently, premium income in major gro...

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