Stephanie Harris

• Rating agency CMBS reviews affirm USA insurers' concerns

  30 September 2020

  S&P downgrades 185 CMBS transactions in September as COVID-19 ravages sector

• LGIM Real Assets announces £81.5m forward-funding deal in Glasgow

  30 September 2020

  Build to Rent fund holds £1.9bn of assets

• China eases restrictions on two programmes for foreign investors

  30 September 2020

  Relaxing QFII and RQFII allows institutional investors further access to Chinese financial markets

• Chesnara Dutch business moves from corporates to mortgages via govvies

  29 September 2020

  Around €150m reinvested in mortgages

• QBE anchor investor in Save the Children Impact Investment Fund

  29 September 2020

  Fund reached a AUD 6m first close

• QBE joins the United Nations Global Compact

  28 September 2020

  Joins the other 15,400 signatories

• India's regulator orders insurers how to direct corporate bond trades

  28 September 2020

  Irdai works with India's exchange regulator to centralise liquidity from disparate corporate bond markets

• Differing reactions to EC's CMU action plan from insurance industry

  25 September 2020

  Insurance Europe positive, while BVI and Axa share their concerns

• Dark clouds for Latin American insurers as interest rates projected to stay low

  25 September 2020

  Moody's looked at low rate impact on Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, and Peru

• MetLife to reduce emissions by 30% and originate $20bn in green investments

  25 September 2020

  Insurer launches environmental goals for next ten years