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  • ESG's negative impact on returns - myth or reality?

    29 July 2020

    A growing number of insurers have announced new or upgraded sustainable investment strategies in recent years. JP Morgan Asset Management (JPMAM) and Insurance Asset Risk have joined forces to investigate the drivers behind insurers' sustainable strategies. Vincent Huck reports on the high-level key findings

  • Scor investment results escape battering from pandemic as underwriting is ravaged

    23 July 2020

    French insurer says will selectively redeploy cash into calmer markets

  • Scor joins Net-Zero Asset Owner Alliance

    28 May 2020

    Advances disinvestment from coal, total withdrawal by 2040

  • Scor posts 3.1% Q1 investment result in volatile market

    29 April 2020

    Insurer plans more derisking after healthy investment outcome

  • Markets test boundaries of insurers' modelled risk scenarios

    03 March 2020

    Some insurers' 2019 equities stress tests mirrored today's COVID-19-inspired falls

  • Scor makes "cautious" repositioning of corporate bond portfolio

    27 February 2020

    Investment in asset class fell by 6pp compared to 2018

  • Insurers' coal divestment pledges reap reputational benefits

    17 January 2020

    Underwriters dominate raking of most praised brands by NGOs

  • Insurers are not long-term investors in individual assets, Eiopa research finds

    17 December 2019

    The supervisory authority examined the asset illiquidity of EEA insurers

  • Insurers’ investment guide to protect world heritage sites unveiled

    15 October 2019

    Insurers worldwide have collaborated with the United Nations and the World Wildlife Fund

  • 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