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How can insurers hot-wire the energy transition?
06 December 2023Four insurance investors sat down together in London to discuss what role insurance investors should be playing in the energy transition, as well as the investment tools that are available to help them speed up the change
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Social investing needs to be taken hand-in-hand with broader ESG issues, insurers say
04 December 2023Panellists at Insurance Asset Risk's Responsible Investing for Insurers conference discussed the difficulties in sourcing social investing data and developing policy on a global scale
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Time for politicians to make polluters pay, Steve Waygood says
29 November 2023Aviva Investors' chief responsible investment officer discusses the asset manager's macro-stewardship programme and why markets will collapse if governments don't rise to the challenge
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Carbon capture investments are increasing - what are the benefits?
27 November 2023Technology and scalability have been doubted in the past - but investors are taking the plunge in increasing numbers
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Building a climate aware SAA
20 November 2023Jean-François Coppenolle, Investment Director - ESG and Climate Integration at Abeille Assurances, describes how the insurer has build a climate aware investment strategy
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An ex-Fed head preaches calmness in times of trouble
09 November 2023Thomas Sullivan, ex-Federal Reserve senior associate director, says macro risk is the biggest worry for insurance markets right now. But regulators should not be stymying investment innovation
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Caught between responsible investing and fiduciary duty?
08 November 2023Panellists at Insurance Asset Risk's Responsible Investing for Insurers 2023 conference debated the duty of insurers to make sustainability and ESG a priority, as well as the unknown value of doing so
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Hydrogen on the way up?
25 October 2023Insurers and their asset managers are taking tentative steps into the world of green hydrogen investing to capture a first mover premium and shore up net-zero strategies. But what's holding insurers back from flying away with the gas?
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Insurance Asset Risk's Responsible Investing for Insurers conference round up
16 October 2023The conference was held in London on 16 October and highlighted the challenges and dilemmas insurers face in building and implementing sustainable investment strategies
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Designing natural capital funds for insurers' investment needs
09 October 2023Launched in 2020, Climate Asset Management designed two strategies one of which is focused on sourcing natural capital investment opportunities for insurers. Megan Reilly Cayten, senior investment manager, explains what the fund invests in, and why it has been more successful with European insurers than US ones.