L&G and NatWest Group Pension Fund enter in £500m JV
15-year JV will build later living communities
15-year JV will build later living communities
And AGM vote on net-zero commitments
Alphadyne hit by interest rate plunge over the summer
Head of ESG client strategy EMEA Maria Lombardo has one eye on helping CIOs achieve their future net zero goals, but another firmly on helping them navigate their general accounts through the here-and-now, David Walker discovers
The UK insurer's head of investment strategy, speaks to David Walker about the firm's commitment to the UN-convened Net-Zero Asset Owner Alliance, and from climate risk modelling to green infrastructure, what is required to achieve the carbon goal
SFCRs from Nürnberger, HUK-Coburg and Helvetia Deutschland among those exposed
Nearly half of which is result of 2020 Cattolica deal
Partnership hopes to convert aspirational pledges into concrete plans
Part of a consortium including OMERS Infrastructure and Goldman Sachs
APRA discloses key findings of its 2020 stress tests
Pandemic "black swan" has focused minds on ESG, Manulife IM says
Sona Stadtelmeyer-Petru discusses Allianz's proprietary assets' move towards net zero with David Walker
Core CMLs can offer a number of benefits to insurance investors—from a material spread premium over similarly rated corporates, to low historical defaults and delinquency rates, to diversification.
In this paper, we highlight our active management approach to a carbon transition investment framework for fixed income assets.
Corrado Pistarino, CIO of Foresters Friendly, prefers numbers to words. In today's world this can be a challenge for anyone trying to build a climate risk management framework, where words are (too often) the golden standard. Interview by Vincent Huck
We believe the higher yielding debt segment of the market currently can offer a highly attractive risk/return profile many insurers after adjusting for Solvency II capital charges.
Leaders of the 'G7' economies announced the 'Build Back Better World' global infrastructure programme, a 'step-change' in their approach to 'mobilise private-sector capital' for the asset class as never before. Europe's insurers stand ready to help, David Walker reports.
In an increasingly complex environment where returns can be scarce one could have expected CIOs to give answers based on fundamentals, but instead, their investment decisions seem to be driven by a greater cause - purpose, as Vincent Huck finds out
Discuss the trends, forecasts and risk/return characteristics for investments in infrastructure, real estate and renewable energy in the post-Covid economy. The event is free to attend for re/insurers, supervisors and regulators.
It is a slow change, even by the notoriously slow standards of the insurance industry. However, the soon-to-be instigated changes to the NAIC's risk-based capital charges on fixed income assets could have significant ramifications for the US insurance investment portfolio. And many don't like it. Sarfraz Thind reports
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