Archive

• Principal and RGA invests $5m in employee benefits start-up

  25 July 2024

  Zoë Foundry to use the capital to launch a portfolio of companies aimed at the next wave of insurtech growth

• US lifers to withstand CML losses and downgrades, Fitch says

  20 May 2024

  Despite "immense pressure" on CMLs, particularly offices

• Prudential Financial lifts stake in chicken restaurant

  03 January 2023

  Insurer added 35% more shares of El Pollo Loco in Q3 last year

• Post hires Kevin Farley to manage CLOs and structured credit

  16 September 2022

  Previously at Wells Fargo trading CLOs

• Brace! Brace! Tailspin in US variable annuity insurer shares revealed

  28 January 2022

  Airline stocks landed hard as the pandemic unfolded - but VA insurers plunged close behind

• Principal Global Investors closed $750m of private lending deals in 2021

  21 January 2022

  Aims to double business this year with new hires and expanded deal count

• US life insurers increase risky assets across the board

  17 November 2021

  Insurers holding as much as 53% in illiquids, according to Moody's

• COMMENT: Hedge fund activists - new, unlikely allies in insurers' climate fight?

  04 June 2021

  Patient insurers and agitating activists once sat at opposite ends of the shareholding spectrum. Climate change might be changing that.

• Insurers report $8.7bn investment losses in COVID-19 infected Q1

  04 May 2020

  Reported damage still coming as many European, US insurers expected to report this month

• US insurers in strong position to ride out real estate slump

  01 April 2020

  Expected 15% to 20% rental decline in properties