European insurers are facing a capital allocation question that would have seemed unthinkable five years ago: should defence become a core part of the institutional portfolio, not just a tolerated exception to it?
A recent report by Reuters said the Dutch insurers were weighing participation in national defence financing as the country's government pushes ahead with its rearmament commitments.
The issue has been one faced across Europe, primarily as pressure from Russia ramps up. The scale of the European defence spending commitment is hard to ignore. The Netherlands has committed to lifting defence spending to 3.5% of GDP by 2035, and it is far from alone – NATO members across the bloc are locking in multi-year increases as governments push for strategic autonomy and domestic industrial capacity.
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