Archive

  • Asset management in the Solvency II transition

    11 December 2015

    Preparing for Solvency II is one thing, but living with it will involve further refinements in how insurers approach asset management, as participants in part one this InsuranceERM/Standard Life Investments roundtable attest

  • Swiss regulator expands insurer investment opportunities

    11 December 2015

    Finma also publishes guidance on ORSA compliance

  • Aviva Investors to close European property fund

    09 December 2015

    Prompted by withdrawal of largest investor

  • Aviva launches venture capital arm

    09 December 2015

    Will invest in new digital businesses

  • Allianz joins decarbonisation initiative

    08 December 2015

    Portfolio Decarbonisation Coalition now has 25 investors as members

  • Insurers to raise allocations to alternative investments

    08 December 2015

    Natixis survey also brings good news for external asset managers

  • What asset managers should do about Solvency II

    16 October 2015

    Asset management firms are keen to assist insurers in their solvency capital calculations, but some of their contributions are more helpful than others, as Andries Beukes and Pamela Hellig explain

  • Pimco endorses ESG investing

    10 September 2015

    "Principled" companies generate higher returns, says CEO

  • CNP scales down government bond portfolio

    31 July 2015

    French insurer responds to low rate environment

  • Insurers and regulators still at odds over infrastructure investment

    05 June 2015

    Insurers' investment in infrastructure has stalled in the face of legal uncertainties over long-term commitments, proposed Solvency II capital charges that seem too high to the industry and growing competition for infrastructure assets. Sarfraz Thind explains