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Climate change analysis - Aviva on stress-testing for history's biggest 'What if?'
Ben Carr, analytics and capital modelling director at Aviva, reflects on the limitations of stress testing an investment portfolio for climate change, and the benefits of doing so nonetheless. Interview by Vincent Huck
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Oliver Bäte admits "terrible" week over US hedge fund woes
06 August 2021But Allianz CEO affirms strategic importance of asset management to German insurer
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Mercer and eVestment form alliance
06 August 2021US asset manager to discontinue its Global Investment Manager Database by 2022
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News round-up - 06 August 2021
06 August 2021Nippon Life; Barings; Schroders; Dai-Ichi Life
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MS&AD Insurance Group invests in automotive start-up Carro
05 August 2021The investment follows the group's $80m increase in its Ventures fund
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Ampega to manage assets of Frankfurter Leben
05 August 2021Increasing Talanx's assets under management by €10bn
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MetLife investments rebound spectacularly from last year
05 August 2021Insurer posts 49% investment gain to make up for sagging underwriting performance
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IVASS warns insurers lack tools for complex investments
05 August 2021Regulator also forewarns volatility adjustment reform may be "imperfect"
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Impairments fall as Hannover Re investment income hits $1bn
05 August 2021Chairman vows to increase sustainable infrastructure investment to counter climate threat
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Chart of the week: Net zero poses difficult question of dividends
05 August 2021Insurers value equities, and utilities/resources, for their income streams. CIOs must square that, somehow, with net zero