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Geopolitical tensions top short-term risks list - WEF report
16 January 2019Worsening international relations are hindering action across a growing array of serious challenges
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Zimbabwean life insurers overexposed to equities
15 January 2019Local regulator warns against the attractiveness of equities versus insurers’ obligations to pay claims
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EU marketing passport and capital charge requirements misaligned, report finds
14 January 2019Although the Alternative Investment Fund Managers Directive’s impact was broadly positive
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Unrealised losses on bonds restrict reinsurance sector’s overall return
11 January 2019Investment yield appears to have bottomed-out and showed a small uptick to 2.7% in the first nine months of 2018, according to Aon reinsurance outlook
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European Commission provides the sustainability weapon... ammunition to follow
10 January 2019Investment professionals have given a mixed reaction to draft EU rules on integrating sustainability in the fiduciary duty of investment firms and insurers. These rules are tied to another piece of legislation currently being designed and whose outcome could lead to significant change… or further greenwashing. Vincent Huck reports
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Korea Post Insurance commits $50m to US venture capital fund
09 January 2019Chicago-based Adams Street Partners will manage the VC
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French insurers cut allocation to financials’ debt
08 January 2019Regulator reveals French insurers invested €2.5trn in the first half of 2018
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Video: Fiduciary duty evolved in light of sustainable finance
08 January 2019Erick Decker, CIO for the Mediterranean and LATAM regions at Axa, tells Vincent Huck how asset managers' fiduciary duty has evolved because of the integration of environmental, social and governance criteria in the investment process.
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Munich Re creates CIO role
07 January 2019On the back of the retirement of both its CFO and its asset manager’s CEO
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UK firms transfer £800bn in assets to Europe ahead of Brexit
07 January 2019According to EY in the UK, since the EU referendum, 20 companies, including six insurers, have announced a transfer of assets out of London to Europe