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• Insurers investments likely to remain strained for a while longer, Sigma says

  10 July 2020

  Swiss Re's research affiliate forecasts US 10-year yield to stay around 1%

• Supervisors should step up Libor transition work, IAIS warns

  09 July 2020

  Considerable portion of financial institutions are yet to start transition, research finds

• KKR to manage Global Atlantic's $70bn assets in acquisition deal

  09 July 2020

  Private equity group buys US annuity provider for $4.4bn

• Covid-19 Crisis: Assessing the impact of market volatility on European insurers

  With the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic putting the insurance sector under further stress, we estimate the impact of recent market movements on European solvency ratios across life and non-life companies.

• COVID-19 should not make MA users forced sellers of assets, PRA says

  08 July 2020

  The regulator says insurers are allowed to reconsider their strategies for managing these portfolios

• Solvency II's VA mechanism too good a tool in COVID-19 times

  08 July 2020

  Often hailed as ineffective the Solvency II's volatility adjustment rules have served insurers well against the impact of COVID-19 on markets in the first half of 2020, but could it have served them too well? Stephanie Harris reports

• Comment: SII Review - European Commission shows its hand

  08 July 2020

  By Elizabeth Gillam, head of EU government relations and public policy, Invesco

• Dai-ichi subsidiaries invests $70m in plastic waste reduction corporate bond

  08 July 2020

  Described as first corporate bond linked to reducing plastic waste

• Voya IM hires Tom Frost to head EMEA insurance and pension solutions

  08 July 2020

  Building on growth in US insurance asset management

• CNP Assurances takes further steps towards coal exit

  07 July 2020

  French insurer will fully divest from coal by 2040