Archive

  • Investment Delivery Forum to charge up EV infrastructure with new blended finance model

    26 July 2024

    ABI's initiative releases final report with 10-point plan to leverage Solvency UK and invest in new areas, including nuclear

  • ABI approves of King's Speech and National Wealth Fund

    18 July 2024

    But warns of need to ensure NWF crowds in private finance instead of crowding it out

  • UK government launches National Wealth Fund with insurers on taskforce and ABI's blessing

    10 July 2024

    Aviva and L&G support fund that aims to catalyse private investment in infrastructure

  • IAR EMEA 24 - Matching adjustment reform, big bang or damp squib?

    27 June 2024

    At Insurance Asset Risk's recent EMEA 2024 conference in London, panellists sat down to discuss some of the main regulatory issues facing insurers this year from reforms to Solvency UK to the ever-proliferating amount of ESG regulation

  • 'Hunt for yield' replaced with 'race for assets', Swiss Re Institute says

    14 June 2024

    Predicting 40% growth in industry investment income in key markets by 2027

  • Implementation of Solvency UK is "make or break", ABI says

    13 June 2024

    Head of prudential regulation praises dialogue with the regulators

  • Comment: EIOPA fires its own starting gun on actually implementing Solvency II reform

    18 April 2024

    Small yet pivotal parts of SFCRs for non-UK firms have been amended, with significantly better transparency one result

  • South Korean insurers called upon to end 'Korea discount'

    15 March 2024

    Update to stewardship code also discussed

  • Investment Delivery Forum report calls for "regulatory sandbox" and asset "pre-identification" to boost productive UK investment

    23 February 2024

    ABI initiative to implement benefits of Solvency UK reforms outlines recommendations including scaling up of public-private partnerships and new investment models

  • Will AI "obey" insurance investors, or "shall [regulator] be forced to disconnect"

    21 February 2024

    An Investec survey at the end of 2023 found that over 50% of systematic investors are using AI in their investing processes, but how are insurers and their asset managers using the technology today and how do they expect it to influence them in the future?