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Covéa agrees not to vote against Scor ballots as part of peace deal

French mutual insurer holds 8.4% of reinsurer's shares

CIO interview: Balancing internal and external clients at an insurer's affiliate

SCOR decided to fully centralise the investment process at group level in 2008, and open asset management services to third-party clients in 2011. Francois De Varenne, in charge of today's €20bn investment portfolio, explains the rational around the decision, how it went about building the current structure. Interview by Vincent Huck

Insurers' GA - cost or opportunity for affiliated asset managers?

Unlike banks, insurers enjoy a close relationship with their affiliated asset managers, to the point that an insurer's CIO can also be the manager's CEO. Although not prohibited by law, this arrangement raises ethical concerns - ones that regulators are well aware of. Vincent Huck reports

SCOR renews Paris School of Economics chair

Focusing on macroeconomic risks in an "environment more uncertain than ever"

People moves round-up - 03 March 2021

Sun Life; Scor; Met Life IM

Scor appoints second woman to executive committee

Scor boosting corporate bond holdings as reinvestment yield languishes

Total returns fall from 3% to 2.8% during 2020

43% of global re/insurance assets covered by divestment policies

Insure Our Future publishes annual scorecard on insurers' climate policies

Scor reveals reinvestment freeze at height of pandemic crisis

French underwriter's reinvestment yield is now 1.4%

Mid-sized French insurers take their general accounts off-piste

A research report by Insurance Risk Data reveals how chief investment officers at smaller French insurers are hungry for more than just French govvies. David Walker reports