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Helvetia and Baloise to form insurer with CHF 139.05 balance sheet assets
23 April 2025Merged firm would have an estimated SST ratio of more than 240% as of 1 January 2025
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Zurich Australia appoints new CIO
11 April 2025Yile Chen promoted to top investment role
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Looking for a home for natural capital in insurers' investment portfolios
12 March 2024Understanding new risks, a lack of asset managers able to service these types of investments at scale, and the question of where to include natural capital in the SAA are the hurdles insurers need to overcome, Danielle Brassel, director of responsible investment at Zurich Insurance Group, explains
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IAR's Investing in Real Assets conference 2022 starts today
05 April 2022Join us for two days of panel discussions on latest trends
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Insurers define the 'central bank gambit'
21 February 2022In an environment of heightened inflation and rising rates, should insurers play defensively against the central banks' next moves?
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Spurring sustainable investments with capital charges
19 September 2019The 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
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Zurich tightens coal exclusion policy and bars investments in oil sands and shale oil companies
26 June 2019Swiss insurer lowers exclusion threshold from 50% of revenues or electricity generated from coal to 30%
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SOFR-linked trades break $1trn a day in first year of operation
12 April 2019FSB chair welcomes Libor alternatives remarkable progress in speech to mark its first anniversary
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Credit markets will falter in the medium term, warns Zurich
03 April 2019Corporate bond valuations are nearing extremes against a background of weak fundamentals
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Transitioning from Libor: complex questions and no answers
21 February 2019The discontinuation of Libor will affect trillions of contracts across the global financial industry, Insurance Asset Risk reveals the scope of the impact on insurers and the unanswerable question they face in a transition period filled with uncertainty. Vincent Huck reports
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