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IAR EMEA audience dissatisfied with UK Solvency reform
28 June 2023But panellists point to the positives of the reform to insurers' investments, as Vincent Huck reports
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Green shoots appear for biodiversity investing - but is it the natural habitat for insurers?
26 June 2023It seems like it's on everyone's lips, but where should investors start to think about biodiversity, when it comes to investing in positive-impact assets? Josh Adcock asks asset owners and managers where they see opportunities flourishing, and how to weed out the wrong strategies
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Why ESG has insurers running in circles
19 June 2023Insurers at Insurance Asset Risk's EMEA 2023 conference took issue with the real impact - or lack thereof - that currently sustainability regulation and ESG reporting standards can actually have, finding that trying to compare their own progress or that of their investee companies can have them feeling trapped in a nightmare. Josh Adcock reports
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Insurance Asset Risk EMEA 2023 conference round up
12 June 2023The conference was held in London on 12 June and highlighted the investment risks and opportunities facing insurers. Vincent Huck reports
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The US battles against ESG
22 May 2023US climate change politics have hit a turning point. What started off as mild disgruntlement against woke investing now looks to have turned into an all-out war by right-leaning states against climate siders. It is enough to make the head spin. Sarfraz Thind reports
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Proposed Dutch rent regulation lacks sustainability weighting, NN Group says
10 April 2023Plans to extend rent control regulation to the mid-market might seem helpful to Dutch citizens in want of more affordable housing, but it might have a chilling effect on investments into the market, Josh Adcock reports
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IAR investing in real assets conference 2023 roundup
28 March 2023Panellists discuss the secular macro and geopolitical trends affecting their investment decisions in real assets
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The many forking paths in Asia's net-zero transition
27 March 2023Financing the energy transition across Asia is often described as one uniform path whose trajectory differs from Europe's and North America's due to APAC's fossil fuel reliance. But there may be as many paths taken within APAC as there are nations involved, David Walker finds
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Vain hopes, vain aims, inordinate desires? (Part 2)
08 February 2023A market view on ESG, by Corrado Pistarino, chief investment officer at Foresters Friendly Society
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Vain hopes, vain aims, inordinate desires? (Part 1)
06 February 2023A market view on ESG, by Corrado Pistarino, chief investment officer at Foresters Friendly Society