Archive

• Scor seeks outsourcing partner to help with buy-back

  27 October 2021

  Reinsurer also hunting more corporate bonds, as cash burns hole in its pocket

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

  20 April 2021

  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

• Scor posts 3.1% Q1 investment result in volatile market

  29 April 2020

  Insurer plans more derisking after healthy investment outcome

• 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%

• Scor divests from tobacco

  27 April 2017

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

• 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.

• Scor boosts cash holdings ahead of Brexit

  27 July 2016

  Reinsurer removed exposures to UK, Spanish and Italian financial sectors

• Scor Global Investments returns 3.1% in first nine months

  04 November 2015

  Decides to increase liquidity further over Q2

• Scor Global Investments makes good first-half investment return

  29 July 2015

  Achieves 3.4% on invested assets

• Scor Global Investments produces good Q1 returns

  06 May 2015

  Fixed-income portfolio duration edging up