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Comment - Is Australia on the verge of needing large ranks of CIOS?
03 February 2023If hard-to-insure communities turn to mutuals as climate change intensifies losses, as private sector property insurers 'run from the hills', CIOs are going to be in demand
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Global insurers sign up to PRI Advance initiative
02 December 2022A collaborative stewardship initiative on social issues and human rights
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How to bury a hatchet - Argo reveals its 'peace-plan' details struck with Voce Capital
28 November 2022In its latest annual financial statement, Argo Group revealed its managers were 'exploring all options' for the re/insurer's future, including M&A/sale. David Walker examines the background
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Chart of the Week - US liabilities 'WLTM' US assets
11 November 2022Cross-border business in EEA has a clear bias...
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Comment - yields are back, but every silver lining has its clouds
10 August 2022Inflation, and threat of surrenders, could wipe smiles from lifers' faces yet
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Shareholdings and Russian impairments halve Swiss Re's 1H investment returns
29 July 2022But reinvestment yield more than triples
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IFRS 9 lops 16% off 1H investment returns at Scor Investments
28 July 2022Unit's 4.1% reinvestment yield almost doubled year on year
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Us versus them: finding the balance between regulators and the industry's objectives
19 July 2022Are regulators the heroes, guarantors of policyholder protection, while insurers are the villains in search of investment return? Not quite, Abbie Wood finds out.
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IAR EMEA: Under the hood of ESG data
06 July 2022ESG data has become known as 'sustainable investing's main challenge', yet, while some insurance investors bemoan the lack of data, lack of quality of the available data, others say 'lets get on with it'. Abbie Wood reports
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Actuaries need to get better at modeling shocks, Scor Kessler says
23 June 2022We are moving to a stochastic world of shocks, he tells French actuaries