Archive

  • Zurich pivoting to unit-linked

    21 November 2022

    Group CIO Stephan van Vliet discusses the group's move into unit-linked, Guy Miller, chief market strategist, provides a market outlook and Danielle Brassel, responsible investment analyst, highlights progress on sustainability. Interview by Vincent Huck

  • Phase Two of the Energy Transition

    02 November 2022

    Christopher J. Leslie, executive chairman, Americas at Macquarie Asset Management - Real Assets discusses the second phase at the Insurance Asset Risk Americas 2022 conference. Compiled by Abbie Wood

  • Sustainability linked bonds: An opportunity for greenwashing?

    31 October 2022

    Erin Bigley, head of fixed income responsible investing at AllianceBernstein, discusses avoiding greenwashing in keynote talk at IAR Americas 2022. Abbie Wood reports

  • Net-zero politics

    24 October 2022

    Panellists at Insurance Asset Risk Americas 2022 conference discuss the implications of the politization of sustainability topics in the US. Vincent Huck reports

  • Insurance Asset Risk Americas 2022 conference round up

    28 September 2022

    The conference was held in New York on 27 September and highlighted the pain ahead for insurance investors. Vincent Huck reports

  • Solvency II review and the sustainability debate: old habits & new ideas

    26 September 2022

    Carlos Montalvo Rebuelta looks at how sustainability could add purpose to the Insurance industry and why it's the stumbling block of the current Solvency II review

  • Solvency II review rapporteur gets spiky with EIOPA

    31 August 2022

    European members of parliament are back from their summer holidays, and there promises to be a heated debate on Solvency II before the review even goes to trilogue. Vincent Huck reports

  • Biodiversity: "A twin emergency next to climate change"

    28 July 2022

    As insurers broaden their ESG universe outside of climate, biodiversity is starting to gain momentum in the spotlight.... But why has it taken so long for it to be recognised as a crisis? Abbie Wood asks

  • The US insurers' take on the net-zero journey

    21 July 2022

    Net-zero is a worthy aspiration—but US insurers bemoan the lack of available data to pave the way to get there, during an Insurance Asset Risk webinar. Sarfraz Thind reports

  • An irreversible shift: Insurance investment adapts to a world of climate extremes

    11 July 2022

    Tim Hodgson and Marisa Hallr consider how the need for sustainability and rejuvenation of our planet will impact insurers' investment purpose.