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  • Pandemic investment scenarios show bonds concerns at major European insurers

    28 May 2020

    Insurers publish results of COVID-19 scenarios, as they divulge credit portfolio losses

  • Global downgrade potential hits all-time high

    28 May 2020

    Tally surpasses mark set in 2009 subprime crisis, says S&P

  • PRA struggles in discerning risk to insurers from market 'noise'

    27 May 2020

    Regulator warns of impact on MA effect as downgrades loom

  • Aviva Investors hires European real estate transactions head

    27 May 2020

    Grégoire Bailly-Salins will focus on assets in continental Europe

  • Asset changes made in 2019 helped weather COVID-19 storm, says LV=

    27 May 2020

    Strategic switches included move towards US treasuries and away from UK equities

  • CNP Assurances to divest from tobacco

    27 May 2020

    French insurer has brought down its investment in the sector to €200m over past two years

  • UK new construction at 2-year low just as insurer interest hits one-year high

    27 May 2020

    UK underwriters invest €2.8bn in constructions, and infrastructure funds

  • Chubb subsidiary reveals sensitivity of outsourcing in SFCR

    27 May 2020

    Pimco named as delegated provider of investment services

  • IAG invests in AI agricultural risk start-up

    27 May 2020

    Partnership allows farmers to prepare for natural disasters

  • COVID-19: Investing in pyjamas

    26 May 2020

    The shift in working practices has gone smoothly, they say. Investors are still contacting clients, though tieless, via the numerous video conference calls they are now undertaking. But the virtual world doesn't cut it when it comes to relationship building. Sarfraz Thind reports