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  • MS&AD vows to keep cutting strategic equity

    24 November 2020

    While Japanese rivals Orix Life and Sumitomo Life are adding to PE

  • US insurer liquidity risk at post-2008 highs

    23 November 2020

    Fed warns of increased difficulty of meeting claims as illiquid assets shoot past 12-year highs

  • Aviva Vita - a life not so dolce with BTP spreads

    23 November 2020

    Aviva plans selling the unit for €400m to Unicredit

  • Comment : ESG investing in credit without compromise

    23 November 2020

    Andrew Epsom, insurance client solutions director at Royal London Asset Management, considers the continuing trend towards ESG investing in credit, but highlights that in many cases the approaches being adopted may not result in either the environmental or financial outcomes that insurers are seeking.

  • Sumitomo Life and SBI Investment create joint venture fund

    20 November 2020

    To invest in start-ups including wellness companies

  • Polluting companies banned from Chinese insurers' PE portfolios

    20 November 2020

    CBIRC spells out environmental blacklist for private equity portfolios

  • Chart: UK insurers' allocation to EEA decreases

    20 November 2020

    But Brexit not the sole driver of the trend

  • Neither doom nor boom for European insurers in 2021

    19 November 2020

    But market volatility and credit risk will be key high-risks next year, S&P warns

  • Climate transition: insurers should lobby government and engage corporates

    19 November 2020

    Insurers have made progress on investment side but more effort needed in underwriting, Zurich head of sustainability says

  • Manulife IM purchases Quebec residential complex for CAD 63m

    19 November 2020

    Multifamily investments show resiliency through market cycles, asset manager says