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Social investing - sandwiched between the E and the G
23 November 2021Panellists discuss the 'forgotten' pillar of ESG at Insurance Asset Risk 2021 Americas conference. Sarfraz Thind reports
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DAV's Schiller puzzled by some EC proposals in Solvency II review
18 November 2021German actuaries tell David Walker of potential dissonance in different pronouncements that the EC has made about insurers' capital, including for 'green' investments, in its reform proposals for Solvency II
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Net-zero outsourcing - will 'great minds think alike'?
10 November 2021Net-zero insurers describe to David Walker a future of working only with asset managers that can show they are committed to the same goal
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A 100% charge on fossil fuels investments - capital punishment, or capital idea?
04 November 2021More than 150 academics, economists and think-tanks are advocating a 100% capital charge on backing expanding and seeking fossil fuel reserves. Finance Watch, co-ordinator of an open letter explaining it, spoke with David Walker
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Net-zero on a transatlantic journey
01 November 2021The concept of net-zero investment portfolio is slowly reaching US shores. Abbie Wood takes the pulse of insurance investors' approach to the idea.
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Road to sustainability not as straight as Route 66
18 October 2021The journey to sustainable investing will be longer and more arduous for US insurers than those in other geographies given the plethora of smaller, under-resourced companies in the country. Sarfraz Thind reports
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Fossilised investments
05 October 2021The US insurers' portfolios remain heavily skewed to oil, gas and coal assets. Even as the clamour for net-zero grows, where is the insurance business going with fossil fuels? Sarfraz Thind reports
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There isn't one straight road to net-zero
14 September 2021Swiss Re's head of responsible investing, Claudia Bolli, discusses the numerous hurdles in the reinsurer's path towards net-zero by 2050. Interview by Vincent Huck
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Net-zero made in USA
09 September 2021Net-zero investing may not occupy every waking moment of CIOs at insurers in the US yet, but it is definitely on their minds, and radars, as Conning's Matt Daly tells David Walker