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CLOs pose no risk to US insurers despite pandemic
17 December 2020GAO report finds insurer leveraged loans too small to be a threat
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MEAG acquires 50% share of solar park in California
16 December 2020Asset comprises two projects
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Sunlife CIO on the art of catching flying daggers
16 December 2020COVID-19 was the 'known unknown' that Randy Brown, CIO at SunLife, has been preparing for the best part of the last five years. So, when markets went into turmoil in H1 2020 the only question that remained was one of timing: when to catch the falling knife? Interview by Vincent Huck
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US needs to raise rates to offer "any semblance of return," Hartford CEO says
15 December 2020Rates down 125bps in one year, magnitude of decline bites on insurance industry
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US insurers timidly assessing climate risk
14 December 2020From increasingly fierce wildfires in California to recurring hurricane hits to the country's southern and eastern seaboards, US insurers are only too familiar with some intensifying effects of climate change, but are they doing anything about it? David Walker takes the temperature.
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MassMutual invests $100m in bitcoin
11 December 2020Also purchases $5m stake in bitcoin investment company, NYDIG
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Liberty Mutual becomes first US P&C insurer to join PRI
10 December 2020Move to incorporate ESG principles follows regulatory outcry against Boston-based insurer in May
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Insatiable chase for yield will be more pronounced in 2021, Macquarie says
09 December 2020Negative yielding corporate debt rises to $2.7trn in last year
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Western & Southern: The equity pusher
09 December 2020The idea that insurers can only invest in fixed income is a myth for Cincinnati's Western & Southern CIO, Brendan White. The insurer has been stretching the mould by investing in equities for nigh on 30 years. White explains why it invests in stocks and how successful this has been in the torpid world of insurance investing. Interview by Sarfraz Thind
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CECL had little impact on US insurers this year
09 December 2020Fitch says accounting standard largely immaterial for insurer reported equity