Vincent Huck

• Insurers in OECD countries favoured sovereign and corporate bonds in 2017

  19 June 2018

  The asset class accounts for more than half of the insurers’ investments in 34 of the 42 countries monitored

• Argentina woes: if you get all tangled up, just tango on

  19 June 2018

  Soaring interest rates and economic turmoil are causing problems for Argentine insurers, and they must also adapt to new rules preventing them from investing in their favourite financial instrument. Vincent Huck reports

  

• Axa IM announces new operating model

  19 June 2018

  Plans include 210 jobs cut and €100m investments

• Allianz GI vice-chair calls for a common language around impact investing

  15 June 2018

  Elizabeth Corley wants to bridge the gap between financial and non-financial returns

• LGIM poaches head of Asia-Pac from SLA

  15 June 2018

  David Peng joins LGIM as head of Asia Pacific ex Japan

• L&G strikes loan and pensions de-risking deal with Heathrow Airport

  15 June 2018

  The insurer will take £325m of pension liabilities and will lend £160m in bond

• Insurers’ investment income set to fall, despite rising rates

  14 June 2018

  Expect another one to three years of declines, analysts at Bernstein predict

• Impact investing or impact washing?

  13 June 2018

  Insurers say they can find financial value in ESG investing, but they have to be wise to investments that don't deliver on their stated goals. And while ESG can mean different things to different stakeholders, a push for standardisation is not always welcome, according to panellists at Insurance Asset Risk's 2018 EMEA conference. Vincent Huck reports

  

• Emerging market debt investments attractive in the long run

  12 June 2018

  62% of surveyed investors said it is attractive to hold for more than five years

• Dutch insurers’ total investments dropped by €17bn in 2017

  12 June 2018

  Decline due to a decrease in their liabilities