Archive

  • Spurring sustainable investments with capital charges

    19 September 2019

    The question of capital charges punishing ‘brown’ investments or incentivising ‘green’ investments has come to the fore. While regulators are asking for risk-based evidence, stakeholders are not all in agreement on how to proceed. Vincent Huck reports

  • Exclusive: ShareAction releases guide on managing climate risks

    13 September 2019

    Guide based on interviews with 14 insurers globally

  • European insurers fall short on FX scenario testing

    05 September 2019

    Less than one-quarter of Europe’s largest firms publish results of currency stress testing, according to research by Insurance Risk Data. David Walker reports

  • Scor launches new strategy

    04 September 2019

    Investment arm has been set a return on invested assets target of between 2.4% and 2.9%

  • In the face of negative yields, lower credit quality or diversify?

    02 September 2019

    Scor IP's CIO, Rossary, makes the case for infrastructure debt as a good diversifier.

  • Reinsurers’ acquisition of alternative capital managers is heating up

    14 August 2019

    S&P predicts more consolidation for global reinsurers

  • Scor reduces corporate bond holdings and increases portfolio liquidity

    25 July 2019

    French reinsurer H1 results suggests central banks’ stimulus could spur returns from riskier investments

  • Negative rates needed to stave off crisis, warns SCOR Investment Partners CIO

    07 June 2019

    Fed chairs decision not to increase rates should be taken with a healthy dose of skepticism

  • Scor Investment Partners acquires ILS fund manager

    23 May 2019

    Scor IP now has an aggregate $2.1bn ILS assets under management

  • Scor scales up coal divestment policies

    29 April 2019

    Insurer Scor has strengthened its coal exclusion policies, but it still falls short of alignment with the goals set by the Paris Climate Agreement.