Archive

  • US recovery not until 2023, Axa IM says

    08 December 2020

    Worse outbreak of COVID-19 in winter predicted

  • Insurers placing less emphasis on climate risk in investments

    07 December 2020

    Climate risk underweighted in asset management versus underwriting, IAIS meeting participants say

  • Over half of US insurers have not altered investment strategy for climate

    26 November 2020

    US's biggest insurer climate survey shows gaps in industry's climate change work

  • US insurer liquidity risk at post-2008 highs

    23 November 2020

    Fed warns of increased difficulty of meeting claims as illiquid assets shoot past 12-year highs

  • MEAG acquires US timberland portfolio

    19 November 2020

    Average yield in this asset class has been 5-7% a year

  • US Election result: Georgia on investors' mind

    18 November 2020

    The great US election of 2020 is done and it has changed little for insurance investors. Biden's win with a slim majority in Congress, and the likelihood of a gridlock means any major reforms are improbable. Unless Georgia delivers the Senate to the Democrats. Sarfraz Thind reports

  • US insurers' ESG assets grow to $2.2trn in 2020

    18 November 2020

    Climate change overtakes tobacco as top ESG consideration for insurers

  • Wellington wins PIC's £700m US muni bond mandate

    18 November 2020

    Manager's climate risk expertise key consideration for mandate win, insurer says

  • Insurers need to "decouple" core fixed income managers from specialists

    16 November 2020

    According to Voya IM having one manager running all FI costs the industry valuable return

  • Insurers using investment over underwriting to integrate ESG into business

    16 November 2020

    Negative screening most popular way to integrate ESG into allocations, AM Best says