Barings eyes €3bn of investments in European real estate in 2021
Particular focus on offices, logistics and residentials
Particular focus on offices, logistics and residentials
Part of strategy to grow the asset management business
Arbitrage trading and alternatives pay off for the US insurer in Q4
While activism used to go against businesses, there is a lot more collaboration these days, and understanding between protagonists, as David Walker finds out
Carlos Montalvo Rebuelta analyses EIOPA's advice to the European Commission on the Solvency II 2020 review, highlighting the points of contention between regulators and policy makers
CROs assuming head of sustainability role aligns management of key organisational risks, HK body says
Companies with over KRW 2trn ($1.8bn) in assets to disclose ESG reports by 2025
Paul Schofield and Jeremy Kent join from AllianzGI, Pieter van Diepen from ASI
Audience of Insurance Asset Risk / Wellington Management webinar heard
Completed financing with Crédit Industriel et Commercial and Novo Banco
Acquisition through the joint venture with Sirius Real Estate
US municipal bonds have been a staple asset for insurers. But as underwriters brace for the effects of climate change, some insurers are questioning if lending to states hit with increasingly frequent and more severe hurricanes and wild fires is a sensible use of their general accounts. David Walker and Sarfraz Thind report
Physical climate risks will significantly impact insurance portfolios. Wellington discuss their tool for assessing specific places' and assets' risk exposures.
As insurers face growing expectations to integrate climate risk into their business, it's clear we're now moving from 'thinking' to 'action'
The roll out of new or updated risk-based capital frameworks across the region raises compliance issue for local insurers.
The rating agency has run stress tests on European insurers' corporate bond portfolios and reveals that, in the most extreme scenario, solvency ratios could decrease by up to 50 percentage points. Vincent Huck reports
Carlos Montalvo Rebuelta reflects on what we should expect from the Solvency II 2020 review based on past amendments of the Directive. So good or bad news?
As markets sink, a chief investment officer at a European insurer tells Vincent Huck how the pandemic is affecting its thinking.
Insurance Asset Risk surveyed the industry to find out how it is rethinking asset allocation in the wake of COVID-19's impact on the economy and financial markets. Vincent Huck presents the results
Research by Insurance Risk Data analyses the trend of part ownership of Bermudian re/insurers by asset managers, looking in particular at the investments of Wellington, Blackstone and Carlyle. David Walker reports
Bitcoin is steaming into the stratosphere—and many want in. But is this speculative bubble going to appeal to insurers? Sarfraz Thind finds out.
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