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Hiscox appoints chief financial officer for London Market

M&G invests A$200m into ESR Australia Development

Insurers ask FSB to support private capital-backed pensions

In light of Chile defunding five million workers' pensions to counter pandemic economic shock

AIG looking to Blackstone's "tremendous" origination strengths to boost returns

Insurer's investments flat in Q2, but private equity and hedge funds gain

Asia's pathway to net-zero

Practitioners in Asia's insurance landscape see change on net zero being led by larger underwriters and spurred by the Paris Agreement, COVID-19, their governments' own climate ambitions, and global warming's physical and transition threats. David Walker reports

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

Oliver Bäte admits "terrible" week over US hedge fund woes

But Allianz CEO affirms strategic importance of asset management to German insurer

Mercer and eVestment form alliance

US asset manager to discontinue its Global Investment Manager Database by 2022

News round-up - 06 August 2021

Nippon Life; Barings; Schroders; Dai-Ichi Life

MS&AD Insurance Group invests in automotive start-up Carro

The investment follows the group's $80m increase in its Ventures fund