Archive

  • Scor sets new benchmark for coal divestment

    06 September 2017

    Won't invest in companies with more than 30% of turnover from coal

  • Scor pauses portfolio rebalancing as markets become uncertain

    27 July 2017

    Portfolio shrinks on currency rate moves

  • Aviva offloads over £1bn bonds and shares in tobacco firms

    21 June 2017

    Joins Scor and Axa's drive to limit investment, citing threat to public health

  • Axa and Scor lead tobacco control investor group

    31 May 2017

    Insurers follow up on their recent divestment policies by encouraging greater regulation of the tobacco industry

  • 'Insurers need to move from climate talk to climate action'

    05 May 2017

    Axa and Vivat's investment arms recently announced coal exclusion policies, while Axa also committed to stop underwriting coal projects – could this be a model for the rest of the industry? Peter Bosshard from anti-fossil fuel NGO the Sunrise Project comments.

  • Scor divests from tobacco

    27 April 2017

    Cash holdings reduced, fixed income duration increased and rebalanced towards corporate bonds

  • Scor's corporate bond push raises return expectations

    22 February 2017

    Reinsurer confirms no exposure to French government debt

  • Raising the stakes in fund management

    07 December 2016

    Insurer-affiliated managers are punching above their weight in a competitive market, taking more than one-third of all fund managers' new business in the first three quarters. David Walker examines the evolving relationship between insurer-parents, affiliates and independent managers.

  • Going back to normal

    28 November 2016

    Scor Global Investments' chief executive François de Varenne explains to Asa Gibson how the group's asset management policy has moved away from its conservative, post-crisis stance.

  • Insurers overestimate business valuation, Milliman research suggests

    26 October 2016

    Consultancy advocates market-consistent embedded value reporting