Archive

  • Insurance Asset Risk's ranking of Top 20 UK insurers by bond and equity investments

    14 November 2018

    Small handful of UK insurers dominate the asset classes

  • IFRS 17 & 9 series: Drivers of profitability - underwriting vs investments

    14 November 2018

    In the first of a three-part series on the international financial reporting standards (Ifrs) impacting insurers’ financial reporting, Vincent Huck explores how the new accounting standards Ifrs 17 and 9 bind both sides of the balance sheet together.

  • Insurers’ investment risk-appetite revealed by Insurance Risk Data

    14 November 2018

    Industry seems torn between investing and underwriting, analysis finds

  • Legal & General affiliate bars coal mining companies from new funds

    14 November 2018

    Exclusions mark latest step in LGIM’s action on climate change

  • UN’s environmental agency launches insurers group

    13 November 2018

    To develop climate risk assessment tools

  • AllianceBernstein AuM falls by $20bn in October

    13 November 2018

    The 3.6% decline was attributed to market depreciation

  • Q&A: EC's proposals on reduced capital charge for qualifying unrated debt

    12 November 2018

    The European Commission has published for consultation a draft delegated act on amendments to the implementing rules on solvency applicable to insurers. The proposals aim to facilitate investments in private debt amongst others. Jegor Tokarevich from Substance Over Form and Frank Dornseifer from Bundesverband Alternative Investments summarise the key points for Solvency II investors.

  • European oil & gas companies spend just 1.3% of capex on low carbon assets

    12 November 2018

    Despite investors, including some insurance household names, calling for transition to a low-carbon economy

  • Recession is coming, and it could spark credit appetite

    12 November 2018

    Panellists at upcoming Insurance Risk & Capital EMEA conference warn

  • Talanx sees good and bad in ZZR change

    12 November 2018

    Net income falls, but spirits rise, as law changes