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Direct action - Asset origination moves centre stage in re/insurers' investment plans
20 December 2023From backing BPAs to enhancing investment yields, directly-originated assets, and the managers able to source them, are finding favour among re/insurers worldwide, David Walker discovers
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Comment: The NAIC's evolving reliance on agency ratings
19 December 2023Amnon Levy analyses the developments from the 2023 Fall National Meeting
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Feeding the birds: How geospatial data is key to making investments more biodiverse
18 December 2023Biodiversity datasets are a new batch of facts and figures for investors to contend with and getting them right often requires a much more local approach
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AG Insurance CIO discusses the return of optionality in insurance investing
13 December 2023Wim Vermeir examines the Belgium insurer's 2024 outlook titled 'the return of the returns'
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When Japan sneezes
11 December 2023Japan's economy has seen a sea change this year as the BoJ loosens what seems like it has been a lifetime of low rates. Life insurers are preparing to make their own moves on the back of this—which could impact the rest of the world.
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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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"Talk to me..." US regulators tell insurers
22 November 2023Why nurturing engagement between insurers and regulators is key as contentious battles hot up